Bill Nelson

Florida acts as a central hub for trade with Latin America.

I'm absolutely concerned about it. If confirmed, we will look at that.

I want to know if you will be concerned about this inequity that is devastating the fresh fruit and vegetable market.

This isn't orange growers. This is vegetable growers, this is peppers and tomatoes.

For some time, Florida fruit and vegetable growers have had to deal with an onslaught of subsidized agricultural imports from Mexico.

It's to protect the people. It's public safety. At NHTSA, it's public safety.

There has to be some moral underpinning about what is right and wrong and the willingness to speak out.

I happen to be talking about Takata, which I think was morally bankrupt because they allowed this to happen.

Takata put profits over safety.

So here's a potential hypothetical. We're rocking along into bankruptcy, and there is something in the bankruptcy with regard to creditors that would be favorable to Takata but would slow down the process of recall.

You're still not going to be an advocate for Takata.

The very device that is intended to save lives is killing lives.

One of the main advocates for a company that has done dastardly things.

The number one mission of the Department of Transportation is public safety.

The Department of Transportation's most important job is the regulation and oversight of safety, and that job never stops.

I might say to Ms. Walsh, indeed I know Wilbur Ross is from Florida, and he is quite interested in trade.

I write to urge you to oppose the nomination of Steven G. Bradbury for the position of Department of Transportation general counsel.

I very much appreciate your interest in these questions, and I know from direct experience how much you personally care about addressing and resolving the safety issues relating to airbag inflator ruptures.

Thank you in advance for your prompt response to this request.

This Senator certainly looks forward to that hearing in the Senate Armed Services Committee. I thank the chairman for his leadership in constantly bringing up and reminding the American people of the threat that is coming through cyber…

Our bill aims to fix that by enhancing risk-based security, requiring training to address threats on our highways, closing gaps in port security, and providing funding to improve security at our rail stations and ports.

For too long, surface transportation security has been underfunded and unfocused.

The people that had advised the President were not giving the best advice when they recommended cutting the dog teams in the President's proposed budget.

One thing that we might look at in this ever-changing scene of technology and the threats to transportation safety is that wherever people bunch up, that's a soft target.

I just--I feel--I cringe for you that you have to support the President's budget because you have to, when, in fact, everybody in this room knows that it ought to go the other way.