Bill Nelson

The FTC is the lead Federal agency protecting consumers by bringing enforcement actions against companies that encounter data breaches...

Unfortunately, when we had $2.5 billion sitting on the table for the first high-speed rail in America...

The Gulf Coast project is an important issue.

Sadly, as we heard at yesterday's hearing with Facebook, protecting privacy does not always happen.

In addition, they make sure that multibillion dollar tech companies protect personal data and ensure that they follow their privacy policies regarding the sharing of that data.

I have asked Chairman Thune to haul Cambridge Analytica in to answer these questions at a separate hearing.

Well, the recent scandal is obviously frustrating not only because it affected 87 million but because it seems to be part of a pattern of lax data practices by the company going back years.

If you and other social media companies do not get your act in order, none of us are going to have any privacy anymore.

If Facebook and other social media and online companies don't do a better job as stewards of our personal information, American consumers are no longer going to have any privacy to protect.

How can American consumers trust folks like your company to be caretakers of their most personal and identifiable information?

We want to know if it is going to be enough.

That in essence is what I understood Ms. Sandberg to say. Is that correct?

Facebook has a responsibility to protect this personal information.

We want to haul Cambridge Analytica in to answer these questions at a separate hearing.

I would like to take a few moments to recognize my friend and colleague Senator Cochran of Mississippi. On April 1, the Senate will lose a tremendous public servant. Between the House and Senate, Senator Cochran devoted nearly 46 years of…

I thank the Senator from Ohio for his gracious comments. I just simply want to say my part as to why it is so important that we pass this legislation, because it is very obvious that an untold number of women and children in the United…

Fast forward to today--some three and a half years later--and we're still dealing with the big problem of getting vehicles with these defective and deadly air bags fixed.

I want to talk about the lack of progress on Takata air bags.

this Saturday, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, are going to lead hundreds of thousands of Americans all around the country in calling for commonsense gun control measures at the March For Our Lives…

I ask unanimous consent that Senator Wyden and I be permitted to speak for up to 5 minutes each prior to the vote. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without objection, it is so ordered. Gun Violence

I think his presence here today is a stark reminder of the human cost of these defective air bags...

We need to ensure that consumers are protected and informed about the risks they face.

The velocity of a bullet fired from an assault weapon compared to the velocity of a handgun is three times the velocity or speed of the handgun bullet. As a result, when that bullet hits its target, the energy is nine times that hitting…

before the Senator from Virginia leaves, since he is the cochairman of the United States-Spain Council, I want him to hear my very brief remarks. As will be officially announced today at 4 o'clock on the new website, La Florida, the…

Mr. Secretary Ross, thank you so much for attending to things like the single point failure of the G-IV which flies above the hurricane which has improved the accuracy by 15 percent of our projections as well as its intensity.