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Next Week: Rubio Staff Hosts Mobile Office Hours

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) office will host in-person and virtual Mobile Office Hours next week to assist constituents with federal casework issues in their respective local communities. These office hours offer constituents who do not live close to one of...

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Rubio Habla en Maxima 92.5 de Tampa Bay

El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) habló con Nio Encendio de Maxima 92.5 de Tampa Bay, sobre cómo la inflación ha impactado a las familias, sobre las olas de migración ilegal, sobre el juicio político de Biden vs. el de Trump, sobre el canje de prisioneros...

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ICYMI: Rubio Joins All Things Considered

U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined National Public Radio’s All Things Considered to discuss his plan to expand the child tax credit for working families. See below for the full transcript and listen to the edited interview here. On the connection between the child...

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Miami Herald: In D.C., Marco Rubio Takes Measured Approach

Feb 28, 2011 | News

After posing for photographs with top supporters for more than an hour, Marco Rubio strolled quietly into a ballroom at the Miami Airport Hilton Saturday night, found his place at the honored guests’ table at the front of the room and prepared to address the home crowd that so enthusiastically got him elected to the U.S. Senate.

It was a subdued entrance for a man heralded as a rock star last year when he swept into office as the fresh face of the Republican wave that overtook Washington in November — a status that made pop culture Friday night when Rubio was mentioned on the gameshow Jeopardy!

“Elected senator from Florida,” host Alex Trebek intoned, “this son of Cuban exiles has been called a rising conservative political star.”

“Who is Rubio?” the contestant quickly replied to the answer in the midterms category, which carried a $2,000 payoff. “Mar-co Ruuubio, right you are,” Trebek said, attempting a Spanish accent.

But in Washington, the rising star has shunned the national spotlight and Sunday talk shows in an orchestrated effort to show he’s focused on Florida. He maintained that approach Saturday at the Miami-Dade Republican Party’s Lincoln Day dinner, a fundraiser expected to net the GOP some $80,000 that featured Rubio as its keynote speaker.

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