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Marco Rubio

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U.S. Secretary of State in the Trump administration; formerly U.S. Senator from Florida.

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Sep 16, 2014

It seems to me the administration has placed many, many caveats on what we will not do.

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Sep 16, 2014

I have supported the training and arming of these rebels for some time.

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Sep 16, 2014

I hope that what we are going to end up with is more than a group of coat holders.

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Sep 16, 2014

I was shocked yesterday to hear that in the Armed Services testimony these rebels are actually going to be used against ISIS.

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Sep 16, 2014

Well, it is not a hypothetical. It is actually--it appears to be, quite frankly, we are relying on a military strategy built on rebels.

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Sep 15, 2014

I am fully in favor of auto-enrollment pension plans, but less-educated workers are less likely to be offered pensions on the job.

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Jul 30, 2014

ICANN must prevent governments from exercising undue influence over Internet governance.

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Jul 28, 2014

The alternative--permitting Iran a large nuclear infrastructure--strikes me as imprudent and unlikely to succeed in the face of Iranian determination to advance its nuclear weapons capability.

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Jul 28, 2014

Congress should insist that nuclear facilities built in violation of Iran's NPT obligations be dismantled; this is important not only for regional stability, but for the integrity of the nonproliferation regime globally.

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Jul 28, 2014

I just think the danger here is quite frank.

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Jul 28, 2014

There is only one reason why you develop a rocket like that and that is to put a nuclear warhead on it.

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Jul 28, 2014

They have stopped the momentum on more sanctions. They have made future sanctions even harder.

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Jul 28, 2014

We wanted to prevent a nuclear-armed Iran. That was our hope.

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Jul 28, 2014

They wanted to achieve the maximum amount of sanctions relief that they could get without having to agree to any irreversible concessions on their nuclear program.

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Jul 28, 2014

A deal of this sort would have potentially negative implications for U.S. interests in the Middle East and beyond.

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Jul 28, 2014

We have implicitly agreed that they now have a right to enrich at any level.

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Jul 28, 2014

The only thing worse than war is crazy people with a nuclear weapon that can reach the United States of America on a rocket.

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Jul 28, 2014

This entire thing is a disaster. It is not just an embarrassing diplomatic failure; this is a dangerous national security failure.

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Jul 28, 2014

I think that that is incredibly naive.

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Jul 28, 2014

They are a state sponsor of terrorism. There is no nation on Earth that uses terrorism more than they do as an element of statecraft.

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Jul 28, 2014

What has been the delay in issuing that interim final rule?

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Jul 28, 2014

Will Secretary Pritzker or you on her behalf--will you make clear here today that you commit to implementing the oil spill impact formula as is written in the law?

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Jul 28, 2014

The Gulf Coast deserves our attention and our resources.

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Jul 28, 2014

I think it is going to be important for Floridians that we get plans moving.

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