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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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Apr 22, 2009

Unfortunately, these gains don't continue into the future, and this is where we're deeply troubled.

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Apr 21, 2009

FEMA did not have its act together, and we knew that in Florida the year before when four hurricanes hit Florida in 2004 within a 6-week period.

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Apr 21, 2009

Congress went along with that, on the condition that when Rocky Flats was finished, the savings would be applied to accelerate cleanup at other sites.

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Apr 21, 2009

Back on the jobs, do you have an estimate of the new jobs that are created by the stimulus bill, how many are going to be Federal and how many in the private sector?

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Apr 21, 2009

You have corrected a number of those deficiencies by what we have seen, the mistakes in the past.

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Apr 21, 2009

You have to have somebody on the ground who does that and somebody who is a professional in doing that.

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Apr 21, 2009

It is what this Nation needs. It is what Florida has been fortunate to have.

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Apr 21, 2009

Now, after the stimulus bill money is over, which is in a couple of years, what happens to those jobs?

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Apr 21, 2009

I can testify to that because I have been sitting by his side in the Emergency Operations Center of the State of Florida since 1995 and have seen him perform under very difficult circumstances.

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Apr 21, 2009

All right. Now, are the projects that are going to be funded first with the stimulus bill money, is this addressing the high-risk and the most cost-effective projects?

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Apr 21, 2009

What is it that you're cleaning up, and why is it necessary to spend all this money?

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