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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.

Aug 12, 2013

Is that just since last August that 60 have left?

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Aug 12, 2013

We are going to insist that you do.

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Aug 12, 2013

When you have the unanimous elected officials, both Federal and State, of two states that are requesting of you to update this Water Control Manual so that adequate flows are flowing south, what is it going to take for you all to get it…

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Aug 12, 2013

Would oysters in Apalachicola be considered an endangered species?

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Aug 12, 2013

But we are not going to help this bay do anything, back to the same subject, without this freshwater.

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Aug 12, 2013

this is a dire situation which has been going on for years.

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Aug 12, 2013

we passed in 1972 the Water Management Districts Act in Florida.

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Aug 12, 2013

And this bay is going to come back someway. We are not giving up.

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Aug 12, 2013

When we get into the questions, we want to get past the process and we want to get into some of the solutions.

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Aug 12, 2013

It is past time that Georgia begin to engage in similar conservation measures, and I would urge the Corps to mandate that Georgia implement such practices in their draft water control plan.

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Aug 12, 2013

We can send him on a vacation for $110 million, but we can't save an ecosystem in a community, a livelihood, a lifestyle?

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