Marco Rubio

I would just strongly recommend to the administration that when the President meets with the president of Canada and Mexico, that he raises fentanyl to the highest level with them and lets them know that that is a threat to our country.

I have to preside over the floor and I turn into a pumpkin here.

I think it is pretty clear that if you see a heroin overdose in the U.S., that heroin or that fentanyl came from Mexico or maybe in the case of fentanyl, China through the mail.

The work you do is important and difficult.

This is a pernicious, disgusting industry that we are dealing with here.

I spent some time in New Hampshire over the last year and from that experience found myself in a lot of small townships.

But the Northeast is far from the U.S.-Mexico border.

It is my sense--that very few people wake up in the morning and say I am going to go shoot heroin just for the first time.

Just for the record, she is not talking about me.

It is no longer just a southern U.S., southeastern U.S., Gulf of Mexico issue, but, in fact, one that is increasingly impacting other parts of our country.

How could someone, whether it is in the Tampa Bay area or anywhere else, see whether their home is in that?

One of the most devastating potential storms would be one that went right into the Tampa Bay area and right into the bay.

But time passes and people forget.

You also, in your testimony, talked about the next evolution of the geostationary operational environmental satellite, which is set to be launched from Cape Canaveral, I believe later this year.

I talked in my opening statement about the legislation that Senator Nelson and I have worked on.

But our men and women who serve us in public service, in various different fields, do an excellent job on our behalf.

Nearly nine out of 10 fatalities, as Senator Rubio mentioned, in the United States from the direct forces of tropical cyclones have been due to water.

I must note that Senator Nelson has been a good partner in these efforts.

Now is the time to continue the momentum for research and technology to drive our forecasters to better track storms, not cut millions of dollars from the project.

Last year, along with my colleague Senator Nelson, I introduced the Hurricane Forecast Improvement Act.

This hurricane season, there are two new tools that will be at the disposal of our researchers and forecasters.

Innovation is the key to ensuring lives and property are spared by accurate forecasting.

We must never sit idle and succumb to hurricane amnesia.

Congress should do everything in its power to stop the transition, if even for an additional two-year period.

Surrendering Internet governance to foreign powers or even a corporate governance structure that is subject to foreign government coercion is akin to surrendering a vital piece of the spectrum to international regulators.