Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered opening remarks and questioned witnesses at a hearing on countering China’s influence in the United States. Watch Rubio’s opening remarks here as well as Part I and Part II of...
Approximately 302,000 Americans live with spinal cord injuries. To help these people achieve a better quality of life, there is a need to increase education and invest in research. U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) successfully led a bipartisan...
Foreign investment is one of the legal means that adversaries, like China, can use to collect Americans’ data, exasperating both privacy and national security risks. To counter this, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) reintroduced the...
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Special Report with Bret Baier to discuss the impending government shutdown, the possibility of a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, and the indictment of Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ). See below for highlights and watch the full...
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced three additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA) Entity List. These are the first additions by the Biden Administration since June. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), author of the bipartisan...
Congress should think before it regulates AI U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) September 26, 2023 Washington Times To prevent next-generation computer programs from wreaking havoc on American society, [some members of Congress want] to enact comprehensive regulation at...
Senator Rubio: The REFUND Act Allows States That Refuse Federal Money To Use It Instead To Pay Down The Debt
Senator Rubio: “The REFUND Act is basically in response to a few things that we’ve seen lately, the latest was the high speed rail debate in Florida, where Florida got offered $2 billion to do something and the state of Florida turned it down, and then the money went to somebody else. And so, the argument always is it’s deficit spending, and we shouldn’t be for it, but if someone’s going to get the money, it might as well be us. Well, the REFUND Act basically says that if you turn down this money, they can’t just take it and give it to some other state. You’ve got to use it to pay down the debt. And what it does is it prevents the kinds of things that we’re seeing now, where the administration gleefully goes around bragging about how all these other states got the money instead of us, which they’re basically encouraging people to do—to take the money and to actually lobby on behalf of deficit spending. It’s very similar to what you saw with the stimulus plan as well. You had all this money available, and then the administration and supporters of the stimulus plan would taunt people like Florida and say, ‘Alright, well I know you guys are against the stimulus, but do you want the money or not, because if not, we’ll give it to somebody else.’ Our answer is that we should have the option of saying, ‘No, you can’t give it to somebody else. Take that money and use it to pay down the debt.’”