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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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May 24, 2017

I am afraid that what is going to happen is, you are going to starve these programs of their resources.

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May 24, 2017

How can we have confidence in the President's tax reform plan, that it is not just what looks like: a veiled attempt to transfer wealth from the least privileged to the most privileged?

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May 24, 2017

I would like for you to look at a bill that Senator Collins and I filed which makes sure small businesses do not have a higher tax rate than corporations.

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May 22, 2017

Thank you, Madam President. I say to the Senator, I appreciate what he is doing. I am a supporter and one of the cosponsors of his bill. This fentanyl problem is just devastating communities all over the country, including in my State of…

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May 22, 2017

I'm concerned, despite the improvements we've made to our cybersecurity, that we're too focused on cyber defense, and not on countering information operations.

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May 22, 2017

In the interest of time, I will insert my opening comments in the record, and I am going to go kick off another committee and I will be right back.

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May 22, 2017

In passing, I would say to the Senator from Ohio, what was so surprising to me was, just a few grains of this deadly drug, just by being touched by someone, is absorbed into the system through the skin, and it can be lethal--just that…

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May 22, 2017

Have you all thought, since you need a lot of cyber talent, of putting Reserve cyber units located in places like Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin?

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May 22, 2017

the situation in Venezuela has gone from very bad to even worse.

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May 22, 2017

Well, I am very, very pleased that we have made the progress that we've made.

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May 22, 2017

What can we do to make Putin feel enough pain to cease his aggression in cyberspace?

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May 22, 2017

So you know, the Russian operation created or showed--exposed is the word--a serious vulnerability on our part.

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