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.
Mr. Chairman, I want to take the opportunity, particularly, to tell our Democratic members of the Committee that, apparently, we just received word that there has been an agreement on the tax issue, and, therefore, if that is true, when we…
Madam President, I would just add to Senator Leahy's comments that a year ago, unfortunately, Honduras was known as the murder capital of the world, with the highest number of per capita murders per 100,000 people. That has improved…
So you think that there will be the capability of protecting against cyber threats, even without it being extremely expensive.
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?
It's interesting that you mention drones, because tomorrow, in this committee, we're going to mark up the FAA bill.
If the drone gets sucked into the jet engine, that's a catastrophic failure.
We do a lot of neat things to protect the national security--cyber attacks, worms, GPS jamming, et cetera.
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.
No more cover-ups, no more head-in-the-sand approaches to safety. If we are going to avoid the tragedies, we've got to be johnny-on-the-spot.





