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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.

Mar 4, 2013

dispersing our capital ships is in our best national security interest and specifically, dispersing the east coast carrier fleet is a national security priority.

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Mar 4, 2013

will you ensure strategic dispersal is again added as an objective in the 2014 QDR?

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Mar 4, 2013

I wish you would look into the fact that your contract could compel contractor training.

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Mar 4, 2013

If we get out of our ideological stances here on both sides of Capitol Hill, we can get rid of the sequestration going forward.

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Mar 4, 2013

Is this being applied now to the contractor personnel as well as the military?

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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

you must be one of the most frustrated people on the planet, because you know the threat in cyber and here Congress can't get anything done because certain players won't allow the passage of the legislation.

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Mar 4, 2013

I appreciate that, and that is assuring, even though we might have a cyber attack that would take out electric grids.

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Mar 4, 2013

What about the Brits? What about the French? Do they have the capabilities of stopping a rogue cyber attack from coming in and suddenly messing up their command and control?

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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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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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