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...
More video is pouring out of Syria, the Arab state ruled with an iron fist for almost 50 years.
The video shows times have indeed changed in that country. More Syrians are demanding reforms and freedoms in this “Arab spring,” which also saw wider freedom promised to Egyptians and Tunisians.
Video also shows death and bullying. The Syrian regime has killed hundreds and detained thousands in reaction to demonstrations and protests.
The regime is clearly using a brutal strategy to keep control, perhaps fearful it could end up in the dustbin of history, the same place other Arab dictatorships have arrived at recently. The regime could also be counting on a war-weary world being too tired to take on yet another out-of-control state.
It should not be allowed that delusion.
On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., joined with U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, an independent Democrat from Connecticut, to introduce a resolution calling for stiffer penalties aimed at the regime of Syria. The United States has already imposed sanctions. Rubio wants more sanctions, but he emphasized that military action is not the solution.
Rubio is right. The United States and the United Nations need to step up sanctions against Syria and pressure the Arab state to move in the direction of democratic elections. The U.S. government should also call for an end to the rule of the Assad family, which has ruled Syria since a 1970 coup.
…