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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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Rubio Votes to Protect NASA Procurement Process, Prevent Waste

May 6, 2022 | Press Releases

Washington, D.C. — U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) released a statement after voting to protect the integrity of National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) procurement process and prevent the waste of taxpayer dollars. 
 
“The success of the Artemis missions is critical to America’s economic and national security,” Rubio said. “If NASA needs a second human landing system to ensure that success, then I will work with them through the appropriations process to make it happen. But we cannot allow these investments to become earmarks for companies that lost a fair bidding process. That will undermine Americans’ faith in the process and slowly erode the quality that comes from true competition.” 
 
The Motion to Instruct Conferees offered by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) would have instructed conferees to strike section 2614(c) of the Senate version of H.R. 4521, which directs NASA to select a second company, within 60 days, to develop an additional human landing system for its Artemis mission and authorizes $10 billion through 2025. The provision has been widely characterized as an earmark for Blue Origin, which lost its bid in April 2021 to build NASA’s new lunar lander as part of the Artemis mission. 
 
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