Bill Nelson

We owe that to Kipp Saile and all the victims of identity theft, and to all American taxpayers who pay their bills properly and on time.

I commend them for that. I am pleased that the administration has included several significant tax fraud prevention proposals in its fiscal year 2014 budget.

We need tougher controls on access to private information, but it needs to be done efficiently without adding more paperwork to the process.

What happened in Tampa is that street crime has suddenly dropped because the criminals are using a laptop instead of a crowbar.

That is unacceptable. The IRS needs to step it up and improve the way it handles tax ID theft once cases are identified.

I will be asking for an update on the status of this.

I think the testimony today has brought out parts of it.

We need to cut through the red tape and ensure this information gets to the IRS quickly.

What I want you to do, Mr. Secretary, is to take a look at the comprehensive bill that Senator Cardin, I, and Senator Schumer have filed in approaching this issue.

Your Special IG for the spending of the TARP money on the Hardest Hit Fund has just accepted my request for an investigation on how the Hardest Hit Fund was not utilized in the State of Florida.

Indeed, the Hardest Hit Fund was to help those people stay in their homes who had lost their jobs.

I believe that the public has a responsibility to pay for roads.

So you get a lot more economies.

Well, they haven't been especially successful recently.

Well, I thank you for holding this hearing.

This is no longer clear thinking, because I don't think one can depend upon it.

Are you all of the opinion that 2015 is a reasonable time for the Canal to be completed?

But south of you, there is no port on the East Coast that is dredged down to 50 feet.

What do you recommend about that?

Senators Nelson and Rubio have responded to me, and Senator Nelson's office is the first time anyone has legitimately offered any assistance.

Well, you remember Willie Sutton, and he said the reason he robbed banks was that was where the money is.

Space debris is really a problem. And I was struck several years ago, the deafening silence, lack of criticism of the Chinese when they launched their ASAT and blew up a satellite, adding tens of thousands of pieces of space debris that…

How do you build the risk to these satellites into your business model?

But what if they put it on one of their rockets in North Korea, sent it up at altitude, and exploded a nuclear weapon?

The American people are certainly appreciative of the conveniences... that all of these conveniences happen to be space-based.