Marco Rubio is not running for president -- not this voting cycle, anyway. But those on the other side of the aisle are well aware of his potential, and are already turning up their scrutiny a notch. The GOP candidate perhaps likeliest to become the nominee, Mitt Romney, has... Continue »
Marco Rubio is not running for president -- not this voting cycle, anyway. But those on the other side of the aisle are well aware of his potential, and are already turning up their scrutiny a notch. The GOP candidate perhaps likeliest to become the nominee, Mitt Romney, has... Continue »
Freshman Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) remains a Tea Party favorite and, despite his protests to the contrary, the leading vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party in 2012. Central to Rubio's appeal is his Cuban-American heritage. Continue »
Republicans who are eager to repair the party's battered image among Hispanic voters and unseat President Obama next year have long promoted a single-barrel solution to their two-pronged problem: putting Sen. Marco Rubio on the national ticket. Continue »
On May 18, 1956, Mario and Oriales Rubio walked into the American Consulate in Havana and applied for immigrant visas. The form asked how long they intended to stay in the United States. "Permanently," Mr. Rubio answered. Continue »
Senator Marco Rubio, a rising Republican star, confronted questions on Thursday that he had embellished his family history and misrepresented the year his parents first left Cuba for the United States. Continue »
U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is raising his national profile through a series of major policy speeches on the economy and America's role in the world. But one issue Florida's freshman Republican doesn't spend much time discussing is immigration. That's despite the fact his parents came from Cuba and he... Continue »
In a move likely to be roundly ignored by Florida's legislative leadership, the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners on Tuesday adopted a resolution urging the Florida legislature to reject any immigration related legislation next session. Continue »
As he thrusts himself into the national spotlight, inviting speculation about vice presidential ambitions, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio is also drawing tougher scrutiny over his words and actions. He has been assailed on national TV for saying government programs have "weakened us as a people," subjected to negative political... Continue »
According to Senator Rubio, President Reagan "basically defined the era in which I grew up in, in every way possible. And to this day, so much of what Reagan stood for is still what we're still debating about." Unfortunately, it seems Senator Rubio hasn't read the chapter on... Continue »