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On the recordMarch 16, 2011
But to say we are pressing the United Nations and that is energetic action, the Security Council, is to basically say the United States--and to say that is what we are going to limit ourselves to, what we are basically saying is the United States may feel strongly about something but we are not doing anything that the Chinese and Russians don't agree with.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio critiques the U.S. reliance on UN consensus with China and Russia regarding Libya.

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