Let’s reject the veiled isolationism of Obama and Clinton

Washington Post By: Marco Rubio September 12, 2014 President Obama’s call on Wednesday for the United States to lead an international military campaign in the Middle East has the potential to begin a departure from the isolationism that he and former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton have advocated during their years in office. There is a…

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More ObamaCare woes

More ObamaCare Woes: Congress must act to block health insurance bailout FoxNews By: Marco Rubio August 8, 2014 As evidence mounts of a looming taxpayer-funded bailout of health insurance companies under ObamaCare, the urgency grows for Congress to take this possibility off the table for good. As expected, ObamaCare’s costs are rising, and health insurers…

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Saving Social Security and Medicare

National Review Online By Marco Rubio August 5, 2014 Last week’s trustees report on the financial health of Social Security and Medicare underscores a fact that everyone in Washington is aware of but few are willing to do anything about: Both of these crucial safety-net programs are on a path to insolvency. According to the…

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Rubio: Iran Nuclear Negotiations a ‘Disaster’

Washington Free Beacon July 29, 2014 Sen. Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) blasted U.S. nuclear negotiations with Iran Tuesday, saying the rolling back of sanctions and allowance of the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism to enrich uranium constituted a “dangerous national security failure.” “This entire thing is a disaster,” Rubio said. “It’s not just an embarrassing…

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Strong Values for a Strong America

National Review Online By: Marco Rubio July 23, 2014 Judged by most modern standards, my background is certainly not one of privilege. My parents worked service-sector jobs, never made much money and had no connections to power or influence. And yet I consider myself to be a child of privilege. I was raised by two…

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THE RUSSIAN THREAT TO THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Power Line By: Marco Rubio July 16, 2014 Russia-Cuba Cooperation a Sign of Growing Threats in Latin America Following the news in recent months has sometimes felt as if we’ve opened a time capsule from the Cold War – when Soviet Union aggression was the norm along with its determination to prop up U.S. adversaries…

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Driving the American Dream

Townhall.com By: Marco Rubio July 2, 2014 As we gather with family and friends this week to mark the Fourth of July, let us keep in mind the defining value that sets this nation apart – the founding principle that stands as our greatest cause for pride and celebration: that every American deserves an equal…

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Marco Rubio Delivers Big Economic Policy Speech

Business Insider By: Hunter Walker June 25, 2014 Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who is regarded as one of the top potential Republican presidential candidates in 2016, delivered a major speech Wednesday afternoon outlining his economic policies at Hillsdale College in Washington D.C. He framed his platform as an effort to stop the “erosion of the…

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Rubio: Take Iraq threat seriously

Politico By: KATIE GLUECK June 22, 2014 Sen. Marco Rubio on Sunday urged more forceful steps toward derailing the jihadist group at the center of unrest in Iraq and didn’t rule out a proposal that Iraq’s prime minister step down. Rubio called the rise of the group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an…

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Changing the future of higher education today

Alligator: The Independent Florida By: Marco Rubio June 16, 2014 When my parents first came to America in the mid-1950s, higher education was an option rather than a necessity. By the time I attended the University of Florida in the early 1990s, times had changed and a college degree was vital to securing a well-paying job.…

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