“The president is scared of your power, and he wants you to believe your vote does not matter.”
“He wants you to lose confidence in our electoral system so you stay home this November.”
“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.”
“Here is what you need to know: The 2020 election was not stolen; we won and he lost.”

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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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Nov 18, 2003

Mr. Levin, SBIRS-High is clearly a highly visible troubled program.

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Nov 18, 2003

Secretary Teets, the GAO notes that between now and 2008, the DOD's estimated cost for space programs more than doubles going from $3.5 billion to $7.5 billion.

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Nov 18, 2003

Make us feel better about this, that the two of you don't know anything about this

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Nov 18, 2003

Clearly, we've already seen other countries try to deny us.

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Nov 18, 2003

I don't understand, Mr. Secretary, why you decided to exempt all space programs from the full funding requirement.

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Nov 18, 2003

The challenge is to have Congress have confidence in the cost.

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Nov 18, 2003

Historically, space programs haven't done real well in their cost performance or their schedule performance.

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Nov 18, 2003

Whenever you invite Senator McCain, it's never going to be boring.

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Nov 18, 2003

You will report to Secretary Wynne once he's confirmed or directly to OSD?

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Nov 18, 2003

I'm a little concerned if we have another Admiral Poindexter situation here where people are running amok

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Nov 18, 2003

Let's go back to your comment earlier that NASA and DOD are cooperating on the programs.

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Nov 18, 2003

Sounds to me that this is unprecedented and will virtually guarantee that the space programs continue to be chronically underfunded.

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