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Bill Nelson: “Those who are listening to this, if they are concerned about this stilted parliamentary language we are using, it is the…”

On the recordJune 15, 2016
Those who are listening to this, if they are concerned about this stilted parliamentary language we are using, it is the Senate's rules that I am requesting through the Presiding Officer permission to ask a question, so I will ask this in the form of a question. Would the Senator believe that these are the shoes of one of the trauma surgeons? It just so happened that two blocks from the nightclub is the trauma center in Orlando, the Regional Medical Center, the No. 1 trauma center with trained trauma surgeons. They called them all in in the middle of the night. Would the Senator like me to read what the doctor who owns these shoes said?
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Bill Nelson
Democratic · Florida
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Jun 15, 2016

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