Honorable Ben Nelson
United States Senator, Nebraska, Democrat
Senator Nelson was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2000. He served as Governor of Nebraska from 1990 to 1998. He serves on the following committees: Armed Services, where he chairs the Personnel Subcommittee; Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry; Appropriations; and Rules. The following is from the February 13, 2009, Senate floor debate on the conference report on H.R. 1, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Our Nation’s economy is in trouble. Over the course of America’s history, our economy has been in trouble before, but rarely this much. Job losses in my State of Nebraska and across the…
