Bill Nelson

I wish to show us these innocent-looking small bottles with an eye dropper of three types of liquid. This is liquid nicotine. The eye droppers are used to put that into the cartridges for electronic cigarettes, otherwise known as…

I am just busting out with ideas I wish to discuss with the Senate. Since we don't have any other Senators standing in line, I will share where I have been today and what is of urgency for the environmental community and particularly the…

We all recognize the danger that many hazardous chemicals and over-the-counter drugs pose to children. That's why we require child-resistant packaging for these substances to prevent accidental poisonings that could result in serious…

That is the exact example that we need to use.

Florida, which has--everybody recruits from Florida. They have a law which you would know, Senator Blumenthal, that transparency, how money is spent, has to be made public.

To me, this hearing so far has been a lot of talk about a lot of things which have been around for an awfully long time, which we all think should be solved.

I think a lot has come out of this committee hearing that should enable and help Dr. Emmert to continue with the reforms that he's trying.

So for a family of four--two adults and two children--you are looking at some real money just to apply for a visa.

I want you to be mindful of that as you are looking at your allocation.

We are facing a situation where we look like we are going to have a lot of area of Iraq and Syria that, at least for in the short run, is going to be controlled by an extremely radical terrorist group.

Senator Rubio and I are going to tag team on the issue of Miami and Orlando.

So if a family is raising children and they anticipate they want to take them to Disney World, they ought to go ahead because the visa is going to be good for 10 years.

We do not have a visa waiver with Brazil.

What percentage of your applicants do you reject giving a visa to in Brazil?

If you are a Brazilian family and you want to go to Disney World, you have to go a consulate to have an eyeball-to-eyeball interview in order to get a visa.

I inform the Senate that the three judges from Florida we are about to vote on have the support of Senator Rubio and I. It is as a result of a bipartisan process. It is actually a nonpartisan process as to how we select our judges in…

Tell me about the technology, are we such that in the NextGen, we are going to do everything from satellites and not have radar, or are we going to have radar as back-up, in which case you have duplicate of costs? What is the story?

So, that being the case, would the redundancy be robust enough that if suddenly there were a major solar explosion and this electromagnetic pulse is suddenly coming to earth and it starts to fry these satellites, that redundancy is robust…

I believe that the sequester cuts of last year, we have never seen that before where they actually sent controllers home to meet the mandated cuts.

I think that one of the keys to successfully completing NextGen is to have predictability in the funding stream.

Mr. Whitaker, tell us about the progress that you can make with the extra funding that the administration has requested.

Well, are you saying 20 years from now? It was a twenty-year endeavor, but it started about ten years ago.

Madam Chairman, realistically, what year are we going to have NextGen ready to go, so that is how we are operating our flights?

So, the first funding was in 2009. We have been talking about this at least for a decade.

I find there are a number of things I agree with the Senator from Arizona on. One of the things I agree with the senior Senator from Arizona on is that Maliki needs to go. Otherwise, I think Iraq is going to blow apart, and it is going to…