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Beka Publishing, COMPTELPLUS | Tuesday, April 14, 2015 1
SPRING 2015 BUSINESS EXPO
The ranking member of the Senate
Commerce Committee said Monday
that Congress and the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC)
need to look forward through the lens of Amer-
ican consumers as they consider laws and regu-
lations of the telecommunications industry.
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) delivered the
Congressional Keynote here at COMPTEL PLUS
yesterday morning.
Known as a Democratic centrist who encour-
ages bipartisanship, Nelson was straight forward
when he said Washington, D.C., has become
“way too partisan.”
“I think it is fair to say that if President Obama
likes something and supports it, you will see an
automatic rejection by some factions in Congress,”
Nelson said. “It is not a good atmosphere.”
But in the midst of the partisan bickering
and the “tit for tat” game that the two major
parties play, Nelson said that if anything can
be accomplished it can be with the assistance
of Commerce Committee Chairman Sen. John
Thune (R-SD).
The committee is empowered with legis-
lative oversight on the nation’s interstate
commerce, communications, consumer issues,
economic development, technology, competi-
tiveness and much more.
Providing a bit of a history lesson, Nelson said
the Commerce Committee was created more
than 200 years ago, at a time where the founding
members never could imagine today’s world and
today’s technologies, must less pondering the
preparation for sending a human to Mars.
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Nelson: Congressional Action Must Protect Consumers
By Bruce Christian
(See Nelson, page 4) Sen. Bill Nelson