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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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Feb 11, 2013

I am a believer that at some point you should just bring in the FBI and the Department of Justice and treat a rape like a rape and throw people in prison.

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Feb 11, 2013

It seems to me that from your office you ought to suggest that some heads ought to roll so that people know that we mean business when we set a contract and set some deadlines.

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Feb 11, 2013

I would hope that as we get our space program cranked up again... that might bring a lot more young people into these fields of high technology.

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Feb 11, 2013

Do you see any potential change of the sequester in the present fiscal year until September the 30th?

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Feb 11, 2013

Financial incentives of both benefits and penalties have worked in the past.

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Feb 11, 2013

Maybe that suggests that we ought to rethink how we contract.

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Feb 11, 2013

I would just point out for your folks sitting behind you that the sales tax deduction expires at the end of this year.

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Feb 11, 2013

Under sequestration, would this move go forward?

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Feb 11, 2013

But, you know, from revenue versus cuts, you have just one to three, one part revenue to three parts of cuts.

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Feb 11, 2013

I am at a loss to understand why the Administration is proposing to cut STEM funds in half and to reorganize it through the Department of Education, National Science Foundation, and the Smithsonian.

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Feb 11, 2013

No doubt you are all the more frustrated in realizing that so many of the veterans retire, and where do they come? They come to my State of Florida.

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Feb 11, 2013

Does this suggest incompetence on the part of the contractor?

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