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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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Mar 11, 2013

Disclosure is the less restrictive alternative to more comprehensive speech regulations.

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Mar 11, 2013

Now, this is of great consequence to the political sphere, of how it was influenced by undisclosed, unlimited money.

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Mar 11, 2013

But it didn't affect the outcome. Here is the outcome. It is disclosure.

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Mar 11, 2013

I believe that disclosure is one of the strongest things that can happen in the public sphere.

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Mar 11, 2013

I rise today to remind this body of the plight of a missing person and the suffering of his family. On March 8, 2007, retired FBI agent Bob Levinson traveled to the Iranian island of Kish on a business trip. From what we know, he checked…

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Mar 4, 2013

I think what you are hearing here is this is coming to the fore because a lot of people are beginning to speak out.

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Mar 4, 2013

This should not be that hard, because we've been through this before with the metadata on the question a few years ago of being able to intercept traffic in order to identify the terrorist wherever the terrorist was.

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Mar 4, 2013

President Karzai has said that we are in cahoots with the Taliban. Why would he say such a thing?

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Mar 4, 2013

If we are faced with having to go in and secure the chemical weapons in Syria, it has been bandied about that that would take 75,000 troops.

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Mar 4, 2013

I think this ought to be handled, but you have a Senator, Senator McCaskill, who is concerned about the convening authority.

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Mar 4, 2013

For the American people to understand our capability with this bellicose nature of this new young leader in North Korea, can you state for the record here that between the United States' ground-to-air, sea-to-air capability of knocking…

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Mar 4, 2013

In the disintegration of the Soviet Union it was the United States that took the initiative through Nunn-Lugar to go in and try to secure those nuclear weapons.

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