Bill Nelson

It is to your credit that you interrelate all of that

Fraud is not a legitimate reason for changing the law

You had written a guest column for one of the newspapers last year when this thing started happening in the press about the Volusia County High School teacher, and you said you saw the new law as so egregious that you felt you had to bring…

In order to make it easier to vote early voting was enacted.

It was almost as if the deal was done.

I think what you are going to see painted is a picture showing that certain groups, in fact, are being excluded.

There are people literally fighting and dying as we sit here for the right to vote in countries like Syria, and we are finding ways to restrict the right to vote?

This is going to be decided by a judicial panel that is convened.

I cannot thank you enough for convening this hearing.

Thus, we had early voting, and thus, the old absentee ballot where you actually had to swear that you were going to be absent on the day of voting, that was changed to vote by mail.

When that right is impeded, then the very Government itself is threatened.

All of us agree that the right to vote is a precious right, and it sets apart the United States from a lot of the countries of the world.

Senator Bill Nelson approached me and asked me to hold this field hearing because of his concern that the constitutionally protected rights to vote are under attack.

But we must be constantly vigilant against threats to these hard-fought victories.

The Supreme Court Citizens United decision, which was issued 2 years ago this week, opened a floodgate of special interest money into campaigns.

I believe that we must stand up for the rights of all Americans.

If my mathematics is correct, you are talking about per election it is at least going to cost you $50,000 more.

That database was paid for by Florida taxpayer dollars

So now comes the question which Senator Nelson just asked, about the Feds looking at this.

I'm curious about the jobs and the economic activity that could come out of the investments in forensic science research.

Our weakness is on the domestic side because all of the issues that we've been talking about...

It's called Sunshine.

I would like to thank Senator Nelson and his staff for answering our pleas for help

Senator Bill Nelson asked CDC to look into the health aspects.

Senator Nelson thought there may be an opportunity to utilize Community Development Block Grant Funding.