Open Congress : News Articles for Sen. Marco Rubio [R, FL]

Fears Of Killing Immigration Bill Doomed Same-Sex Amendment

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...amendment. "It'll kill the bill. It'll kill the bill," he said. "We lose evangelicals. We lose the Catholic Church. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., another Gang of Eight member, said he'd vote against the immigration bill if it recognized same-sex marriages.

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Rubio knocks making key lime the official pie: Is the idea really so ridiculous?

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

...at 02:28 PM ET, 05/22/2013 May 22, 2013 06:28 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Sen. Marco Rubio’s key-lime pie proposal might not be so ridiculous. (J. Scott Applewhite - AP) Ridiculousness may be in the eye — or tastebuds — of the beholder. Wednesday, Se

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Rubio knocks making key lime the official pie: Is the idea really so ridiculous?

2013-05-22T01:00:00Z

Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...Menendez-Corker bill, which earned the support of powerful lawmakers from Sens. John McCain (R-AZ) to Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to Marco Rubio (R-FL) -- all of whom rejected Paul's allegations. "I don't think any member of this committee would vote for anyth

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Breakthrough on immigration reform?

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...Those three GOP votes are expected to be Sens. Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Orinn Hatch (Utah) and Jeff Flake (Ariz.). Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Josh Culling, a spokesman for the pro-immigration reform Americans for Tax Reform, told m

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Kristol to Rubio: 'Walk away'

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol has some advice for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on the Senate’s immigration reform bill: Walk away. “He should walk away from it,” Kristol said Tuesday on “The Laura Ingraham Show.” “He should say, I made a goo

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Bill Kristol to Marco Rubio: ‘Walk away’ on immigration, says ‘Jeff Sessions is winning the debate’

2013-05-21T01:00:00Z

...Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, a self-admitted liberal on immigration had some words of advice for Republican Florida Sen. Marco Rubio on his immigration fight: Walk away and come back later. Kristol said tactically it was important for Republican

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Hatch poised to back immigration bill with changes

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...the bill. They don’t need his vote to push the bill out of committee, but leading Democrats and Republican sponsors such as Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., have courted Hatch, believing his vote will help attract other conservatives as the legislation moves

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Senate panel drafting immigration bill agrees to more changes prompted by Boston bombing

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...bill sought a compromise proposal after lengthy, at-times heated debate on the Sessions amendment last week and after Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) — a key member of the “Gang of Eight” — signaled that he would seek to revive the biometric issue onc

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Immigration Bill Could Require Fingerprinting at Airports

2013-05-20T01:00:00Z

...cutting-edge system up and running at all 30 of the biggest airports, but we believe it's doable in the next five years." Sen. Marco Rubio, a key Republican member of the Gang of Eight, said he would fight to include a biometric system in the bill after

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Video: May 19: Pfeiffer, Cornyn, Chaffetz & Pruitt

2013-05-19T01:00:00Z

...Soto and Erica Lafferty and Stephen Schwarzman on the Scharzman Scholars program. Guns and immigration in the Senate: Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., Sen. Pat Toomey, R-Penn., Mark Kelly, David Ignatius, David Sanger, Amy Walter and

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Obama's gifts to Marco Rubio

2013-05-19T01:00:00Z

...— Sen. Marco Rubio's efforts to reform immigration may be drawing skepticism from many conservatives. But scandals facing the White House have allowed him to shift his message back to the one that made him a star in the first place: The threat to Amer

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IRS scandal latest

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...(The inspector general report found no evidence of external influence on IRS field agents to pursue conservative groups.) Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joins The Daily Rundown's Chuck Todd to talk about the IRS scandal. He discusses whether Â the IRS situa

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Marco Rubio’s immigration game plan

2013-05-17T01:00:00Z

...Democrats simply will not allow any changes to the basic amnesty-first/enforcement-later structure of the bill. This puts Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., in a bit of a bind since Rubio said before the Judiciary mark-up began, “The bill that’s in place rig

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Video: Sen. Ayotte tries to rewrite Sen. Ayotte

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...to sound like she voted for the manchin, toomey bill. senator ayotte is also getting help lying to new hampshire from senator marco rubio , who is exploring just how much you can lie to new hampshire in an ad his super pac is running for kelly ayotte .

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Trey Radel Will Battle Marco Rubio For Florida Republican Lawmaker Hip-Hop Supremacy

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...which I mean Florida has produced two such people, and I have not been paying attention to the other states. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio's love for hip-hop is well-known , and it would have been useful to have him lending everyone some perspective back whe

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Sen. Marco Rubio: Obama created 'culture of intimidation'

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...has created a “culture of intimidation” throughout the federal government and taken part in a “deliberate abuse of power,” Sen. Marco Rubio said Thursday. “The president doesn’t have clean hands in this,” Mr. Rubio, Florida Republican, sai

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Man Bites Dog! Chuck Todd Calls Out Sen. Marco Rubio

2013-05-16T01:00:00Z

...and hypocrisies -- especially Chuck Todd, of all people. Via Think Progress: On Thursday, NBC’s Chuck Todd challenged Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) claim that the Obama administration has created a “culture of intimidation” in which “everything is

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Cuban-American lawyer group: Grassley amendment bad for Cuban refugees

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...about but most-significant aspects of the nation's immigration debate is the outsized influence of Cuban-Americans. Sen. Marco Rubio is helping push the immigration bill with Sen. Bob Menendez and Sen. Ted Cruz is essentially fighting them. In the House

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Marco Rubio Slams Secret AP Subpoenas From Obama's DOJ

2013-05-15T01:00:00Z

...the same group. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Unveiling the bipartisan Startup Act 2.0 WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) (C) speaks during news conference with America Online co-founder and member of the President's Council on Jobs

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