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Sen. Marco Rubio demands resignation of non-existent IRS commissioner
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Monday called for the non-existent commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to resign over the agency’s targeting of tea party groups. “[I]t is clear the IRS cannot operate with even a shred of the American people’s confidence under the current leadership,” he wrote in a…
Rubio: ‘I just want to congratulate those like Fox News’ for pushing Benghazi
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Thursday thanked the Fox News channel for everything they had done to promote the idea that President Barack Obama’s administration deliberately allowed four Americans to die in Benghazi, Libya last year. Following a day of near wall-to-wall Fox News coverage of the House Oversight Committee…
Anti-immigration advocate calls Rubio ‘Schumer’s waterboy’ in Tea Party call
The head of a conservative group seeking to limit immigration reform denigrated Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) while saying he should be the focus of efforts to curtail the recent legislation proposed by Rubio and the bipartisan “Gang of 8.” “The question, the way it would have to be presented to…
Rep. Paul Ryan: I’m ruling out thinking about 2016
House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) has ruled out seeking the White House in 2016 — at least for now. “I’m ruling out thinking about it right now,” he said in video uploaded to YouTube by the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. “I really don’t think it is in my interest…
Rubio ‘open’ to cutting off all Muslim student visas
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Wednesday said that he was “open” to considering the idea of halting all student visas from Muslim countries as a reaction to this month’s Boston Marathon bombings. Earlier this week, Fox News host Bob Beckel first suggested that there should be a two-year suspension of…
Sen. Marco Rubio: ‘I think Jay-Z needs to get informed’ about Cuba
US Senator Marco Rubio on Sunday railed against the recent trip to Cuba by pop diva Beyonce and hip-hop star Jay-Z, calling for stricter rules against travel to the communist-run island. “I won’t rap it, but I’ll say, first of all, I think Jay-Z needs to get informed,” Rubio told…
Republican senators seek to add anti-abortion amendments to proposed budget bill
Five new anti-abortion amendments have been filed by Republican senators to their proposed budget resolution as part of the marathon voting session known as “vote-a-rama,” The Huffington Post reported Friday. Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) filed the District of Columbia Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, which would ban abortions after 20…
Rand Paul narrowly wins CPAC straw poll over Rubio
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) scored a victory in the straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Saturday, edging out Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), NBC News reported on Saturday. Paul, whose father, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), won the poll at the conference in 2010 and 2011, garnered…
McConnell: Democrats’ 2016 field looking like ‘a rerun of The Golden Girls’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) got in a few yucks during his 2013 CPAC speech Friday morning, telling a crowd that he thinks the Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential field is looking like “a rerun of ‘The Golden Girls.’” “Don’t tell me the Democrats are the party of the future…
Marco Rubio: Opposing marriage equality ‘does not make me a bigot’
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Thursday told a conservative audience that liberals needed to respect his views because support the right of states to discriminate against LGBT people “does not make me a bigot,” and opposing the reproductive rights of women “does not make you a chauvinist.” Speaking to the…
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