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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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Sep 25, 2018

Seems to me that protecting consumer privacy ought to be an easy answer.

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Sep 25, 2018

Can I assume that what you're saying is that you're going to move to the cloud so that you don't have to constantly upgrade the in-house computing infrastructure?

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Sep 25, 2018

Well, under current law, the FTC can only bring an enforcement action against a company that violates the terms of its own public policy or its own public privacy policy.

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Sep 25, 2018

The question is not whether or not you want to work with Congress.

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Sep 25, 2018

we do not understand why the Committee has chosen to exclude the voice of consumers.

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Sep 25, 2018

Will the combatant commanders understand this so-called meaningful set of metrics that you're talking about, a standard?

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Sep 18, 2018

over the past few weeks, I have been meeting with residents and business owners in South Florida who are continuing to experience the health impacts and the financial troubles as a result of the persistent algae blooms which are on the…

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Sep 18, 2018

on the 11th of November 2018, the world celebrates the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. America entered the Great War 2 years, 8 months, and 9 days after it started, but with our allies and through great sacrifice, defeated the…

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Sep 18, 2018

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Water Resources Development Act

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Sep 17, 2018

This Committee has passed legislation that has allowed the U.S. to be a leader in fishery conservation and management.

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Sep 17, 2018

climate change and sea level rise are already changing ecosystems and that forces fish populations to move.

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Sep 17, 2018

Climate change and global mismanagement of fish stocks are driving our oceans to conditions that we've never seen before.

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Sep 17, 2018

I was necessarily absent for the September 6, 2018, vote on the motion to confirm Executive Calendar No. 779, Dominic W. Lanza to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Arizona. I would have voted no. Mr. President, I was necessarily…

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Sep 17, 2018

To follow that up, the Chinese have twice as many vessels to support their fishing fleet.

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Sep 4, 2018

It's important for us to know the program's details, and I believe it's imperative that we have a discussion on the ways that TSA is responding to the emerging threat, as you and I, Admiral, discussed, of 3-D printed guns.

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Sep 4, 2018

And what's your time table for replacing the older technology with the new?

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Sep 4, 2018

And the CT technology is the replacement for the metal detector?

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Sep 4, 2018

If you don't present a boarding pass, what do you present?

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Sep 4, 2018

And those comments sound just like John McCain, who had an extraordinary insight into matters of national security.

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Sep 4, 2018

the big question is so much of TSA is trying to protect us on an airplane and now with 3-D guns...

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Aug 28, 2018

when you walk by Senator McCain's desk and see the black drape and the bowl of white roses, it really underscores the loss. We lost a colleague. We lost a friend. The country lost a true public servant. We have heard the stories. After…

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Aug 28, 2018

today I voted yea on the confirmation of Lynn Johnson of Colorado to lead the Administration for Children and Families under the Department of Health and Human Services. As the head of the agency that oversees the Office of Refugee…

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Aug 27, 2018

It's not a partisan issue. That bill that you talked about, that I introduced a year ago, we passed it.

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Aug 27, 2018

I joined my colleague, Senator Rubio, in filing a bill to require a coordinated scientific strategy to address the toxic algae in Florida.

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Aug 27, 2018

We applaud the Committee's willingness to take on this important issue, and ask Congress to provide assistance to our state agencies and local governments in their clean-up and recovery efforts.

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