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769 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed  A Budget It’s been 769 days since U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget.  Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said that Democrats are in a tough situation, because they only have 53 votes. As Politico reported today: “I think people also understand the Leader [Reid] faces a tough situation with 53 votes and a Republican House,” said Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin. “It’s just not an easy year to engineer the outcomes you’d like to have.” Additionally, Democrats like Nelson haven’t even offered any budget proposal, because their other partisan leaders – Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget. “It’s…

Incumbent Plays Politics At Expense Of Florida Families Who Count On Medicare In an act of transparent political posturing, the Associated Press reports today that U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) joined four other Democrat Senators – all of whom are coincidentally up for re-election next year – in sending a letter to Vice President Joe Biden that calls on Biden to reaffirm his commitment to leaving Medicare “unchanged” during budget and deficit negotiations. Ironically, despite his election-cycle rhetoric – Nelson is the only candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida who voted to cut Medicare by $500 billion in order to fund the Democrats’ expansion of government into other areas of the health care market. “Given his strident campaign rhetoric on the issue, it’s a shame that Senator Bill Nelson didn’t show this same enthusiasm for Medicare sixteen months ago, when he helped his Washington party bosses cut it by $500…

768 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed  A Budget It’s been 768 days since U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget. In this Congress alone, Democrats like Bill Nelson haven’t even offered any budget proposal, because their partisan leaders – Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget. “It’s been 768 days since Senator Bill Nelson and his liberal friends in Washington have passed a budget,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee Spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “With a national debt of over $14.3 trillion, Floridians deserve to know what’s keeping Nelson from performing his most basic task of passing a budget that will rein in his reckless spending habits that…

758 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed  A Budget It’s been 758 days since U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget. In this Congress alone, Democrats like Bill Nelson haven’t even offered any budget proposal, because their partisan leaders – Senators Harry Reid (D-NV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have said that to do so would be “foolish,” and that Democrats do not have the time to propose a budget. Yet somehow, Bill Nelson and the Democrats found the time to take a week-long recess from Washington.  Meanwhile in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, not only did they find the time to propose and pass a budget, but they were able to accomplish this simple task by April 15, 2011. “It’s ironic that Democrats like Bill Nelson say they are…

As liberal U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and his fellow Washington Democrats continue to demagogue the important issue of Medicare reform, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today reminded Floridians that Nelson is the only candidate for U.S. Senate in Florida who voted into law a bill that will ration health care, cut Medicare by $500 billion, and keep Medicare on its current track toward bankruptcy– which he did by giving President Barack Obama the deciding 60th vote to ram ObamaCare into law. “Despite Democratic political posturing, voters know Bill Nelson voted for Obamacare, which rations health care for seniors and cuts Medicare by $500 billion.” said NRSC spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “Senator Nelson’s decision to ignore Florida voters and cast the deciding 60th vote for ObamaCare’s tax hikes and Medicare cuts will be a key issue as he prepares to face voters at the polls next year.”

Taxpayer Cash Sent To Thousands Of Tax Cheats Thanks To Nelson, Obama A new non-partisan government report revealed today that – in addition to its failure to create jobs while helping drive our national debt past $14.3 trillion – President Obama and U.S. Senator Bill Nelson’s (D-FL) failed $787 billion stimulus handed billions of taxpayer dollars to tax cheats. As the non-partisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported today: At least 3,700 Recovery Act contract and grant recipients—including prime recipients, subrecipients, and vendors—are estimated to owe more than $750 million in known unpaid federal taxes as of September 30, 2009, and received over $24 billion in Recovery Act funds. Meanwhile, the Associated Press reports that the problem could actually be even worse, noting: “[t]he report said the tax delinquents accounted for nearly 6 percent of the 63,000 contractors and grantees examined and cautioned that the real number might be higher because…

755 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed  A Budget It’s been 755 days since U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget.  Additionally in the 112th Congress, Democrats like Bill Nelson haven’t even offered their budget proposal, because their leaders – Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) and Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) – have stated that not only do Democrats not have the time to propose a budget, but it would be “foolish” of them to do so. “Floridians deserve to know if Senator Bill Nelson agrees with his liberal party leaders that it’s foolish for Democrats to offer their budget proposal or if he believes it’s time for the Senate to do its job and pass a budget,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) Spokesman Jahan Wilcox.  “With a national debt of…

754 Days & Counting Since Senate Democrats Passed A Budget It’s been more than 750 days since U.S. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) and the Democrats who run the Senate have performed the most basic job function of Congress by passing a federal budget – during which time the federal debt has risen by an additional $3.1 trillion. But despite our nation’s growing fiscal crisis, Senate Democrats have yet to even propose a budget in the current 112th Congress, let alone debate and pass one, and Senate Democrat Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) now claims that it would be “foolish” for Democrats to attempt to do their jobs by proposing a budget. As the Los Angeles Times reports: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it would be “foolish” for Democrats to propose their own federal budget for 2012, despite continued attacks from Republicans that the party is ducking its responsibility to put…

In the 112th Congress, Senate Democrats Haven’t Even Proposed A Budget As a candidate for the U.S. Senate in 2006, Bill Nelson (D-FL) repeatedly expressed his support for a balanced budget and routinely pilloried Republicans for their fiscal record in Washington. Yet today marks a full 750 days since Nelson and the Democrat-controlled Senate have passed ANY budget, let alone a balanced budget.  In fact, in the current 112th Congress, Senate Democrats have yet to even propose a budget, let alone debate and pass one.  And in just the 750 days since Nelson and his fellow Democrats who run the Senate have failed to pass a budget, the federal debt has risen by an additional $3.1 trillion. “Every month, every Florida family has to put together a budget and live within their means, yet Bill Nelson and his fellow liberal Democrats apparently don’t believe they should be held to that…