Bill Nelson

Do not answer the phone. When you answer the phone, hang up.

I have talked to the Jamaican Ambassador. One of the things that we want to do--and I will be visiting with the Attorney General--we want to see somebody indicted, and then, when I pressed the Jamaican Ambassador, we want to see them…

What Senator Collins said is true, and this is just one type of scam.

But it didn't affect the outcome. Here is the outcome. It is disclosure.

Disclosure is the less restrictive alternative to more comprehensive speech regulations.

Now, this is of great consequence to the political sphere, of how it was influenced by undisclosed, unlimited money.

We just came through more than a billion dollars, probably $2 billion to $3 billion, of outside ads from these undisclosed sources.

I believe that disclosure is one of the strongest things that can happen in the public sphere.

U.S. forces will no longer be sized to conduct large-scale, prolonged stability operations.

I think what you are hearing here is this is coming to the fore because a lot of people are beginning to speak out.

I think this ought to be handled, but you have a Senator, Senator McCaskill, who is concerned about the convening authority.

Is this being applied now to the contractor personnel as well as the military?

If we get out of our ideological stances here on both sides of Capitol Hill, we can get rid of the sequestration going forward.

I wish you would look into the fact that your contract could compel contractor training.

Will you ensure strategic dispersal is again added as an objective in the 2014 QDR?

Dispersing our capital ships is in our best national security interest and specifically, dispersing the east coast carrier fleet is a national security priority.

Senator Nelson. General Dempsey, due to the sequester, Navy ship deployments to U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) have been cancelled.

If we are faced with having to go in and secure the chemical weapons in Syria, it has been bandied about that that would take 75,000 troops.

President Karzai has said that we are in cahoots with the Taliban. Why would he say such a thing?

Now, what about the F-22s? They were at Kadena going to be sent back to the United States and that was a plan that was in process until all of this bellicosity started by the Korean young leader.

Finally, Admiral, you have a lot of terrorist activity going on in your AOR and you've had some stunning successes over the years--catching the Bali bomber, the success that we've had in the southern Philippines, Zamboanga.

For the American people to understand our capability with this bellicose nature of this new young leader in North Korea, can you state for the record here that between the United States' ground-to-air, sea-to-air capability of knocking…

Given the vital nature of its mission, will the 601st AOC receive adequate funding under the sequester to provide for the proper air defense of North America?

How will you ensure that the National Guard Pilots are ready to fly when they have to scramble to intercept an enemy aircraft?

This should not be that hard, because we've been through this before with the metadata on the question a few years ago of being able to intercept traffic in order to identify the terrorist wherever the terrorist was.