Bill Nelson

Is John Deere planning for the future of driverless tractors?

Well, when you get a controversy over a large tower, do you have any magic solutions on this?

So, Mr. Chairman, you could be a gentlemen farmer. You could be plowing your field while you're sitting back drinking your cup of coffee in the farmhouse.

We stand ready to work with Chairman Thune and all the stakeholders to find areas of bipartisan consensus

We're all here because of the demand for and the reliance on wireless broadband.

I am certainly going to help Senator Boxer. On the question about guns, I am an old country boy. I grew up on a ranch and grew up with guns, but guns should be for hunting, not for killing. One of the most commonsense measures is a measure…

If you boil this down, it is a matter of right and wrong. It is a matter of fairness.

It is simply not fair.

However, that gets more complicated when you're dealing with a rogue group of a dozen people stuck in a room somewhere that are not part of a nation-state.

I have a policy position, and that is that the telecoms better cooperate with the United States Government.

I agree. But, now the Admiral is assaulted by the telecoms, who want to tie his hands behind his back by doing all of the encryption.

One of the things that we did in the highway bill was we got the number up to $200 million to help the commuter railroads install the Positive Train Control.

It is a critical appointment, it is a critical time. It is a time that the FRA cannot let anything be slack and drop.

At a critical time, a time in which there are questions of safety, the millions of people that use commuter rail

If the Congress extends the deadline for PTC, what would you recommendation be?

I am grateful for your attention to it.

Well, you have heard of the old saying, we are between the devil and the deep blue sea.

The American people are getting fed up with it. And we had better start to find a more equitable way to finance our elections.

All of this flap that we are going through is unnecessary if the IRS would follow the statute.

I believe that all of it ought to be disclosed.

I think that the American people are going to be so fed up by the time this presidential election is over with the amount of dark money, undisclosed, unlimited money that comes into the political system, that they are going to be readily…

The present system is out of kilter. It is, in effect, no campaign finance law, the way you can do things now.

The public does not know who is financing that, and that money is not being used, as the statute requires, for a social welfare purpose.

The system is not fair--the Republicans think it is disastrously not fair.

Before us this evening is a decision whether or not to take money away from Planned Parenthood. For close to 100 years, Planned Parenthood has provided critical health services to millions, providing care to 2.7 million people in 2013…