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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 4, 2004

I want to help General Schoomaker, because jihadists, as I have reported to you, are going across the Syrian border and they are killing our American men and women.

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Feb 4, 2004

Those words are golden, and those will be duly noted.

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Feb 4, 2004

I was specifically told what has now been made public by the President and the Secretary of State: that there were unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) that could be put on ships off the eastern seaboard and flown over eastern seaboard cities…

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Feb 4, 2004

I would like in a more secure environment also--every Floridian, indeed member of this government, ought to be concerned about events occurring in the Caribbean that would cause a mass migration as we have seen in the past from Cuba, also…

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Feb 4, 2004

So that is the plan for bringing it back to 2010?

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Feb 4, 2004

I am not concerned about the process as long as I know that the uniformed military is involved in it and making decisions.

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Feb 4, 2004

What you are trying to do in remolding the Army? I congratulate you.

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Feb 4, 2004

Secretary England, has the Navy performed any analysis of the current strategic conditions, force protection, and risk relative to the establishment of a second base on the Atlantic coast for nuclear-powered aircraft carriers?

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Feb 4, 2004

I confronted him with all of those, and he was not cooperative.

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Feb 4, 2004

I confronted him about the withholding of those funds.

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Feb 4, 2004

It might be something worth exploring, and I would respectfully suggest that that is in the interests of the United States.

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Feb 4, 2004

However, what I was not told was that there was a dispute in the Intelligence Community over the veracity of that information.

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