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On the recordJanuary 15, 2014
I am also concerned--and I am no longer the ranking member of this subcommittee, but I am glad I am here today--by what best can be characterized as an indifferent foreign policy--and both parties are guilty of this--toward the hemisphere and its issues and at worst is quite frankly negligence, this rising tide of authoritarianism that we find in the region.
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Marco Rubio
Republican · Florida

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Rubio expresses concern over U.S. foreign policy's negligence regarding rising authoritarianism in the Americas.

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