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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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Jul 28, 2015

For that kind of outpouring, indeed it is humbling to me.

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Jul 28, 2015

I want to thank you for having this hearing on this important topic of spectrum.

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Jul 28, 2015

I would simply request that we consider it without any significant delay.

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Jul 28, 2015

It is important to recognize that spectrum legislation is not only necessary but it has traditionally been bipartisan.

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Jul 28, 2015

I want to thank her for her leadership on spectrum policy.

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Jul 28, 2015

I believe that we have to approach this from a balanced position between licensed spectrum--the frequencies used to transmit radio, TV, and broadband signals--and the unlicensed spectrum, which supports technologies such as Wi-Fi.

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Jul 28, 2015

I want to thank all of you for very reasoned statements. And this is--I consider it one of the most important decisions that I will make.

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Jul 28, 2015

I don't think you can hide traces of enriched uranium.

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Jul 28, 2015

If Congress does not permit sanctions to be lifted under the terms of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA), will other countries continue to cooperate with U.S.

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Jul 28, 2015

So, to recapitulate then, if we were to reject it, the money is likely to flow because it is in the hands of foreign banks that would not be compelled to adhere to the United States wishes at that point.

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Jul 28, 2015

Therefore, if we denied the lifting of economic sanctions, that money is in the hands of foreign banks.

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Jul 6, 2015

Over the last week, I met with a grieving mom whose daughter, on her honeymoon, when the traffic had stopped on Interstate 95...

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Jul 6, 2015

And this particular truck was intrastate, not interstate, so what rules that we have up here...

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Jul 6, 2015

There are 4,000 people that are killed each year from serious truck crashes.

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Jul 6, 2015

If the United States really seized control of the campaign against ISIS, we can speed up ISIS defeat, but that it would come at a great cost to our servicemembers, and that another group with another name and ideology would just be back in…

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Jun 22, 2015

I thank the distinguished chairman of the Finance Committee. I will be back at 5 o'clock to speak on behalf of our nominee for TSA, Admiral Neffenger. ____________________

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Jun 22, 2015

Do you think that rental car companies should be prohibited from leasing vehicles under recall until they are fixed?

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Jun 22, 2015

We strongly support the concept that they should be fixed before they are rented to a customer.

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Jun 22, 2015

But I am trying to get at this. Hasn't Takata blamed the defective airbags on how your plants handled the ammonium nitrate propellants and how your plants assembled the inflators?

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Jun 22, 2015

Mr. Schostek announced Honda's support for S. 1173 at the hearing on June 23, 2015.

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Jun 22, 2015

What about all these deaths in the South? Do you think humidity is one of the contributing factors?

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Jun 22, 2015

Is that the type of concern that your safety audits were intended to identify?

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Jun 22, 2015

Would you want your daughter to drive a vehicle with a Takata airbag that you had replaced the batwing ammonium nitrate?

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Jun 22, 2015

We haven't dropped it. We have experts from Penn State. We have experts from Georgia Tech.

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Jun 22, 2015

So if you are saying that these pyrotechnic handling problems had to do with the safety of the inflators, wouldn't you have had a clue in 2006 when that happened?

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