Marco Rubio

They see that as a place for cooperation with the United States.

I want to talk briefly about our partnership with Russia in space which is critical now in the aftermath of the shuttle program.

Is there an awareness of that, that China poses a real potential strategic challenge for Russia not today but in the next 5 to 10 years?

I also read where they said, however, that it is not a blank check.

I commend your initiative in visiting Hama to demonstrate American support for the Syrian people's demands for an end of the Assad regime and a more democratic future.

I think it's probably the first time in four decades--am I wrong--in--first time in four decades that the United States--and maybe longer--will have the capability of launching, in a short amount of time, human space travel.

I would just say that, from our vantage point, priorities on paper is one thing, what an administration is willing to put its name behind is something else.

I think what, one a bigger level, what we're really--I think the question really is, you know, what is the level of commitment to getting this done at anytime in the near future?

Obviously people are going to ask questions.

I mean, that's the bottom line--that that truly is a priority, when you're cutting funding to it, like this President's budget does.

From Florida, this is almost a $13-billion-a-year industry.

Thank you, gentlemen, for appearing here before us today.

The first is a sustainable fishery, is that--is a goal we all share.

The United States is, from a global perspective, in a competition for influence.

Approval of the trade agreements with Panama and Colombia have been delayed for more than 5 years.

And I would say that it is enormously important that we come together on a bipartisan basis and find a way to lock in these reforms.

I think there has to be a compromise on a bipartisan basis, like we did in the late 1990s.

It seems to me like this idea, that we're going to somehow be able to pressure and/or convince them to abandon this program--the price of pressuring them seems like it's extraordinarily high, given the central importance that this has on…

It sounds like the testimony, basically, is that they're willing to let their people starve.

I think that the argument that some have made--and not that I'm making it today, but the argument that some have made is that, the fact that we--that, to the extent that food does get to people in North Korea--and it's a very calloused…

It is the--it is something that they--their ability to have a nuclear program makes them, not just a force to be reckoned with in the region.

The next senator from Florida will be a yes vote to banning all earmark spending in the United States Congress.

Today, I want to talk to you about banning earmarks.

Rubio says Crist's decision to switch parties will not change his campaign strategy.

Crist was once the overwhelming favorite in the battle for the Republican senate nomination. Now, he trails former Florida house speaker Marco Rubio by more than 20 points.