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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. President, I want to talk about what is happening to our environment in South Florida as a result of sea level rise. We can put this into political terms of climate change, but that seems to be an issue some want to deny. So I want to…
If you boil this down, it is a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of fairness.
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.
I have a policy position, and that is that the telecoms better cooperate with the United States Government.
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.
Mr. President, 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…
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.
at a critical time, a time in which there are questions of safety, the millions of people that use commuter rail
it is a critical appointment, it is a critical time. It is a time that the FRA cannot let anything be slack and drop.
If the Congress extends the deadline for PTC, what would you recommendation be?
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