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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 1, 2010

All right, you take a country like Saudi Arabia, they can deal with the radicalization problems by going to the tribes, which is the family of the young fellow that's been radicalized, and work at it that way.

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Feb 1, 2010

I was not very satisfied when we had the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Ms. Flournoy, come to talk to us about the policy.

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Feb 1, 2010

With the rainy season officially beginning on April 15, what are we doing to help internally displaced Haitians in and around Port-au-Prince with shelter and sanitation?

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Jan 27, 2010

That says a lot about the willingness of folks to get our fiscal house in order.

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Jan 27, 2010

I want to ask you a friendly question and I want to ask you an unfriendly question.

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Jan 27, 2010

there are going to be certain exceptions for it.

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Jan 27, 2010

Well, I want to ask you about that because you said in the second 10 years--if I recall, your projection was if the Senate health bill passed, the second 10-year period it would come down in the range of $650 billion to $1.3 trillion.

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Jan 27, 2010

we are going to be voting on a so-called pay-as-you-go amendment, and that sounds awfully good.

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Jan 27, 2010

If those commercial rockets don't work, then for the foreseeable future of the next decade or so, we are going to be relying on the Russians just to get to and from our Space Station.

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Jan 27, 2010

I choose to disagree with that characterization. It was a namby-pamby watered-down statement that was oblique, at best.

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Jan 27, 2010

the fact that we only got 53 votes for setting up a commission in the statutes that you and Senator Gregg proposed I think is a shame.

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Jan 27, 2010

Well, now, is it not true that one of the things that you cannot score when you do a score for the Senate health bill is the insurance reforms, things like that insurance companies cannot suddenly cancel you for pre-existing conditions...

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