I anticipate, as long as I'm here, that we will slow that application process down or, in fact, continue to remove it from the budget.
Dean Heller
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Dean Heller is a Republican politician from Nevada who served as a United States Senator from 2011 to 2017. He was the first Republican to win a statewide office in Nevada since 2002 when he was elected to the Senate in a special election to fill the vacancy left by John Ensign. During his time in the Senate, Heller focused on issues such as healthcare, tax reform, and veterans' affairs. He was known for his moderate stance on certain issues, including his support for the Affordable Care Act's protections for pre-existing conditions.
They deserve the best quality of care and benefits that our Nation has to offer.
Can I be allowed to make the same request that I could get you out to Nevada so that you could spend some time with our veterans at a roundtable to discuss issues that are important to them?
Can I get your commitment to work with me to get a full-time doctor into that clinic by the end of the year?
I told you yesterday, we have about 300,000 veterans in the State of Nevada, good men and women, patriotic, will take the call again, regardless of age, to serve and defend this country.
In 2017 I took that out of the budget. In 2018, the President put it back in his budget, and this year I took it back out.
You argue that Facebook users would not trust you if they thought you were giving their private information to the intelligence community, yet you use and sell the same data to make money.
How long do you keep a user's data after they have left? If they choose to delete their account, how long do you keep their data?
If, after going through this hearing and Nevadans no longer want to have a Facebook account, if that is the case, if a Facebook user deletes their account, do you delete their data?
For years, Facebook said that there should be strict limits on the information the government can access on Americans.
Have you ever said that you will not sell an ad based on personal information, simply that you would not sell this data because of the usage of it goes too far?
Do you believe you are more responsible with millions of Americans' personal data than the Federal Government would be?
Yesterday, Facebook sent out a notification to 87 million users that information was given to Cambridge Analytica without their consent.
In 2018, that language will also be removed. Would you anticipate in 2019 that you will request it again?