Voter Confronts Marco Rubio over His Missed Senate Votes, Briefings

Rand Paul of Kentucky and Independent Sen.

In the interview with the Post, Rubio said he was “frustrated” with the Senate, and said that in addition to running for the White House, he was not running for reelection.

Rubio said Senate votes are important, but added that as a member of the Intelligence Committee, he was updated on recent briefings.

Last month Rubio told Iowa voters that when he ran for his Senate seat back in 2010 against former Democratic Governor Charlie Crist, the establishment “actively tried to undermine” his candidacy, and they still aren’t backing him now.

The good news: Of those who said they could name one of their lawmakers, 62 percent said they approve of the job their representative is doing.

“I can tell you that in the history of presidential politics, people have…missed votes”.

“They [domestic programs] are very important but nothing is more important than the defense of this country”.

“I’ve got a lot of really cool things I could do other than sit around, being miserable, listening to people demonize me and me feeling compelled to demonize them”. Talking with CNN, Rubio couldn’t come up with a coherent explanation.

Citing his missed votes and his complaints about dysfunction in the Senate, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, based in Fort Lauderdale, said Rubio should step down and “let us elect someone who wants to be there and earn an honest dollar for an honest day’s work”. Rubio said from the Senate floor 10 months into the job.

RUBIO: Well, I’m going to support the Republican nominee, and I’m comfortable that it’s not going to be Donald Trump, and I’m increasingly confident that it’s going to be me. A Democrat, Sen. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), objected that Rubio’s bill did not allow workers due process.

In defending himself, Rubio told CNN’s Gangel, “I was just there this Tuesday”. According to an NBC News analysis released at the beginning of October, he had missed 59 votes since declaring his run for president in April, or 42%.

Republican presidential hopeful Marco Rubio spoke to a room full of veterans at the T.D. Convention Center Saturday.

He began missing votes. Marco Rubio is a U.S. senator. They brought him into the negotiations over the 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill because they recognized his star power and hoped that he would be an effective salesman when it came time to pitch the legislation to congressional Republicans and conservative media.

By choosing to stay in the Senate and get the publicity, perks and pay that go with the position – without doing the work – you are taking advantage of us. He lamented that very little has happened in the upper chamber even after the GOP won the majority in the 2014 midterm elections.

“Now it’s [2015], and the argument is, ‘We’ve gotta wait to elect the president, ” he said.