Marco Rubio

Your testimony emphasizes the importance of including older Americans when developing emergency response plans.

Senators Bill Nelson, Marco Rubio, Bob Casey, and Susan Collins have introduced the Protecting Seniors During Disasters Act.

This legislation would require the heads of multiple federal agencies to assess the specific needs of seniors.

In the days after Hurricane Irma, we heard reports about how a number of other facilities and providers were not designated as such by the state, local government, or electricity provider.

Dr. Hyer, in the recent tragedy at the nursing home in Hollywood, Florida, we have heard accounts that this nursing home had an emergency response plan in place and they simply were not following it.

In order to respond to the needs of vulnerable populations during disaster, we need to know where they are so that first responders can prioritize their efforts to address these special needs first.

I am committed to working with my colleagues to fill the gaps in our current emergency response system.

I have seen his ability to work in an objective, nonpartisan fashion, which makes him the ideal candidate.

Without a doubt, he's been an asset to the people of Florida everywhere he has served.

I'm honored to be here today to introduce my friend and a fellow Floridian, Carlos Muniz.

I always prefer to deal with these issues standing on their own. I think it's better that way.

But FEMA runs out of money on Friday, theoretically. That's an important thing.

I just hope people will heed the warnings and, look, right now it appears, at least in southeast Florida what I've seen the last couple days, the most mobilization, people are heeding those warnings.

I certainly think if you are in an area where evacuations are what they call voluntary right now, you should start thinking about the fact that at some point tomorrow, early, by midday, those could become mandatory.

He needs to clarify as to whether or not they are threats.

This is not presidential behavior.

It has always been my position that Colombia is a sovereign nation that has elected representatives who have to respond to their people for the decisions they make.

I think U.S. pressure should try to get them to that point.

There are now 40 democratic countries that have announced they do not recognize the Constituent Assembly in Venezuela.

We will not recognize the seating of the Constituent Assembly and its usurpation of the powers of the duly elected National Assembly.

We are under no illusion that that would be the goal of the FARC once they become engaged politically.

How can we argue or how can the position be that Nicolas Maduro is legitimate even if the Government that he has now put in place is one we do not recognize?

If the National Assembly is the only legitimate entity, the Constituent Assembly, by definition, is illegitimate.

The peace deal, they want peace, but they want peace with security, that in many ways this peace deal is illusory.

The fact is a lasting and enduring peace is in the national interest of both Colombia and the United States.