Bill Nelson

If an electric company... were attacked... that would be a direct attack on our country.

We have been attacked, and there are a lot of us that feel like we are still being attacked and that we're going to be attacked, particularly with regard to our elections, which we consider as critical infrastructure.

when you start cutting $48 billion over 10 years to the graduate medical education payments, it is going to severely hurt a State like ours

u.s. army future command needs

Congress waited nearly 5 months before passing disaster aid for hurricane victims in Florida--5 months--and 32 months after Flint, Michigan's lead poisoning.

Do you think that that bridge is important to you? If it is not repaired, are any of your launch missions going to be impacted on the eastern test range?

If history is a teacher, then the Iranians do not have a real good track record of living up to agreements or telling the truth.

long ago we learned a lesson from having too many assets in one place at Pearl Harbor.

In particular, how best can the United States target the criminal dictator Maduro, and help restore Venezuela's democracy?

We think the public sector in the Department of Defense are woefully unprepared and split and segmented and not coordinated to be able to handle now what is one of the greatest threats to our national security, the cyberattacks that…

So long as they continue to fund the level of proxy warfare, whether it be in Yemen or the explosives they send into Saudi Arabia or into Bahrain.

I have the privilege, along with Senator Rounds, of heading the Cyber Subcommittee.

What criteria are the Army using to decide where the Command will be located?

I've long called for a comprehensive solution that includes new resources to prevent and treat the opioid epidemic before more lives are lost.

A series of continuing resolutions do not help the fact that the Air Force has had to make some tough decisions on what they can fund.

you have about $1.4 trillion over 10 years in cuts to Medicaid.

I just want to thank you for standing on that.

We have already seen how an attack undermines our very democratic institutions.

Have you got any comments that we might have been able to see cost savings when negotiating the next multiyear contract?

We are concerned that the DOD... has the authorities in order to, number one, prevent or, number two, counterattack.

But it is my understanding that you can participate with NASA in some way to--basically the bridge is going to have to be rebuilt.

I believe the other help we need is to understand this generation, as they grow up as high-end users of cyber.

No one wants to go head to head with our soldiers. Instead, our peer competitors are investing heavily in technologies to take away our advantage in cyberspace and the electronic spectrum.

Any action the United States makes sends a message to everybody on the planet.

My State is subject to hurricanes. Puerto Rico is subject to hurricanes.