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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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Mar 14, 2016

So what you're saying is that technology will allow you to protect people's privacy, even in an autonomous vehicle with all the gadgets in it?

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Mar 14, 2016

We do a lot of neat things to protect the national security--cyber attacks, worms, GPS jamming, et cetera.

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Mar 14, 2016

I'm here to tell you that I'm glad I grabbed the wheel.

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Mar 14, 2016

There are going to be many lives that could be saved by preventing preventable accidents.

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Mar 14, 2016

Maybe you ought to confer with Apple, since Apple seems to be pretty good on privacy, in terms of being able to get into the iPhone of a terrorist.

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Mar 9, 2016

I wish to speak about Bob Levinson, a retired FBI agent who 9 years ago today disappeared in Iran. He was on the tourist island of Kish. It is a little island off the coast of Iran, and it is Iranian territory. It is in the Persian Gulf…

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Mar 8, 2016

What I think we need to do is improve the transparency and how do we measure the effectiveness.

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Mar 8, 2016

I was necessarily absent for yesterday's vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the Grassley-Leahy amendment No. 3378 to S. 524, the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Bill. I would have voted yea. (At the request of Mr. Reid, the…

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Mar 8, 2016

The research I talked about showed less autocratic, more stable countries seem to be able to use security cooperation assistance better.

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Mar 8, 2016

We are concerned in building partner capacity. We are focused on addressing the institutional problems of corruption and flawed management.

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Mar 7, 2016

As I understand it, you all have a recommendation to the White House.

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Mar 7, 2016

In the absence of a repeal of the SBP/DIC offset, do you think it is appropriate to extend SSIA, and if so, for how long?

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