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Bill Nelson

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Bill Nelson is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Senator from Florida from 2001 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously represented Florida's 9th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2001. Nelson also held the position of Florida's Insurance Commissioner from 1995 to 1999, where he focused on consumer protection and insurance reform.

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Jul 12, 2016

Not only is that true, those four things, but then the House of Representatives put it on a very good bill, the MILCON appropriations, and they sent it down here thinking that we were going to have to take it at the eleventh hour with all…

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Jul 12, 2016

It is true, and not only is it true that the President requested it, but immediately, a whole bunch of us out here filed a bill and brought it to the attention of the Senate, and it is now 5 months later.

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Jul 12, 2016

Constancy of purpose is critical.

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Jul 12, 2016

Not only is it true, but with 100 Senators, when something passes with 89 votes, that is a pretty strong consensus.

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Jul 12, 2016

If you think of the building of the Panama Canal, mosquitoes transmitted malaria. So mosquitoes are a vector which transmits a lot of diseases. This strain of mosquito can lay its larvae in stagnant water contained in something as small as…

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Jul 12, 2016

Not only the good fortune but the great privilege, and now I have the opportunity to work on the policy for the Nation's space program.

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Jul 11, 2016

One person's sensitive data is not another person's sensitive data.

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Jul 11, 2016

But as a practical matter, that doesn't work that way.

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Jul 11, 2016

should the consumer have the authority, by giving their consent or not, to control the invasion of their content?

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Jul 11, 2016

Final rules are often more balanced than proposed ones.

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Jul 11, 2016

If we all share the same goal of how to best protect consumer online privacy, then it seems that we are bifurcated in our approach to this.

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Jul 11, 2016

What we have been going through over the past several years in trying to protect the privacy of American citizens and American persons from intrusion by the government...

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