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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 28, 2015

If you boil this down, it is a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of fairness.

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Sep 28, 2015

I agree. But, now the Admiral is assaulted by the telecoms, who want to tie his hands behind his back by doing all of the encryption.

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Sep 28, 2015

However, that gets more complicated when you're dealing with a rogue group of a dozen people stuck in a room somewhere that are not part of a nation-state.

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Sep 28, 2015

I have a policy position, and that is that the telecoms better cooperate with the United States Government.

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Sep 22, 2015

Volkswagen has become part of the lexicon of the American economy, American culture. Volkswagen Beetles, at the time when I was growing up as a kid, were all a part of the America we know and love. Now we find out that Volkswagen for years…

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Sep 16, 2015

at a critical time, a time in which there are questions of safety, the millions of people that use commuter rail

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Sep 16, 2015

Well, you have heard of the old saying, we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.

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Sep 16, 2015

it is a critical appointment, it is a critical time. It is a time that the FRA cannot let anything be slack and drop.

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Sep 16, 2015

If the Congress extends the deadline for PTC, what would you recommendation be?

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Sep 16, 2015

One of the things that we did in the highway bill was we got the number up to $200 million to help the commuter railroads install the Positive Train Control.

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Sep 16, 2015

I am grateful for your attention to it.

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Sep 9, 2015

I will vote for the joint agreement. I want the Senate and my colleagues from Florida to understand. I gave a lengthy speech as to why I would support this some 5 weeks ago, in the early part of August before we adjourned. Indeed, I, like…

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