Marco Rubio

Let me begin by just offering my condolences to the Heil family who lost two family members, Barb and Jerry, on the January 13th, 2012, Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy.

Part of it is evident in public opinion polls. President Chavez's popularity has shot right back up.

The opposition will have its elections in early February and will elect a candidate.

As long as Venezuela is using drug trafficking as a part of statecraft, it will be very difficult for us.

Just briefly for both of you, Mr. Farah, the gist of your testimony is all of this stuff is great, but as long as Venezuela is out there, true success is going to be very difficult to accomplish.

Just he is a member of the political science faculty there as well, which is, I believe, the finest political science faculty in the southeastern United States, not just because I coteach there.

Puerto Rico is a domestic responsibility of ours. It is not another country.

Is there a resource problem in Puerto Rico? Do their law enforcement agencies have a resource problem in terms of dealing with the complexity of this?

So what they face in Puerto Rico today is similar to what we saw in south Florida in the 1980s in terms of a transit point, an entry point from the Caribbean on.

This is a domestic obligation of ours. This is not another country. This is under our jurisdiction, and these are American citizens.

I think it is over 1,000 homicides this year.

There's just so many victims that have told me and share their stories.

I think it's one of the things we can do something about immediately.

One of the things we can do something is about is what you're talking about, and that is the credit rating of individuals that have been directly impacted.

That's correct. Thank you for having this hearing. And this is an issue that predates my service here.

We are going to start today by talking about job creation in America. I wish to turn it over to Senator Coons to begin this conversation about a very important piece of legislation we filed jointly yesterday.

Can you see how this would discourage the space workforce in Florida and at other centers?

It can be a catalyst for getting kids excited about science and math.

I think we need to do a better job here in the Senate and the Congress of getting people excited about that destination.

I think we all understand the need for certification efforts to ensure that the vehicles are safe and are ready to fly.

They may have once seen him as the force of civility. They now recognize that he is driving the country to ruin.

The burden is on the Syrian opposition to be talking to the same people.

The loss of the Assad regime would be a devastating blow to Iran.

As you aware, both the President's plan and Senator Reid's plan call for a so-called surtax on millionaires, which is to generate revenue.

Any bill that purports to be a jobs plan has to be judged by--primarily has to be looked by--what effect it will have on private sector behavior and private sector job creation.