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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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Jun 25, 2014

We do not have a visa waiver with Brazil.

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Jun 25, 2014

We are facing a situation where we look like we are going to have a lot of area of Iraq and Syria that, at least for in the short run, is going to be controlled by an extremely radical terrorist group.

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Jun 25, 2014

What percentage of your applicants do you reject giving a visa to in Brazil?

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Jun 25, 2014

Senator Rubio and I are going to tag team on the issue of Miami and Orlando.

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Jun 25, 2014

So if a family is raising children and they anticipate they want to take them to Disney World, they ought to go ahead because the visa is going to be good for 10 years.

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Jun 24, 2014

I think that one of the keys to successfully completing NextGen is to have predictability in the funding stream.

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Jun 24, 2014

Tell me about the technology, are we such that in the NextGen, we are going to do everything from satellites and not have radar, or are we going to have radar as back-up, in which case you have duplicate of costs? What is the story?

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Jun 24, 2014

Mr. Whitaker, tell us about the progress that you can make with the extra funding that the administration has requested.

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Jun 24, 2014

So, that being the case, would the redundancy be robust enough that if suddenly there were a major solar explosion and this electromagnetic pulse is suddenly coming to earth and it starts to fry these satellites, that redundancy is robust…

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Jun 24, 2014

just to remind the Senate, this judge and the next one--as was the previous one--were done by the Judicial Nominating Commission process that Senator Rubio and I use in order to take any kind of politics out of the selection of judges. It…

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Jun 24, 2014

So, the first funding was in 2009. We have been talking about this at least for a decade.

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Jun 24, 2014

Madam Chairman, realistically, what year are we going to have NextGen ready to go, so that is how we are operating our flights?

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