“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“AI is not going anywhere. It has both promise and peril. I just want us to be thinking critically about this from all angles.”
“I’d be worried about a massive economic slowdown. You know, the impact of Wall Street on Main Street, and I’d be worried about job losses.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”

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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 21, 2009

The timetable in which you're going to do it, that's negotiated, as well?

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Apr 21, 2009

the vast majority of that life-cycle cost increase was because of assumptions that were too aggressive and lack of reality in the funding profile.

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Apr 21, 2009

I'm going to slip out to another appointment.

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Apr 21, 2009

Okay. Now, let me ask you, on the stimulus bill projects, how did you decide what projects were going to be funded?

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Apr 21, 2009

So, when you use the term 'shovel-ready,' you're talking about the projects you've just described.

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Apr 21, 2009

That's how you come to the percentage cleanup that you're going to achieve?

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Apr 21, 2009

It's a pleasure to work with you. We have a lot of work to do in this subcommittee.

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Apr 21, 2009

Senator Bill Nelson. Senator Begich, I'm going to call on you, and Senator Sessions will chair the meeting until I can get back.

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Apr 21, 2009

Under the stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Department of Energy (DOE) received $5.1 billion to address a substantial backlog of these cleanup projects.

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Apr 21, 2009

I share your concerns on behalf of the money and the taxpayers who are footing the bill for this cleanup.

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Apr 21, 2009

Can you share with us how you determined what the cleanup level would be?

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Apr 21, 2009

Okay. Let's just start right there.

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