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Marco Rubio, bipartisan Senate group call for U.S. help for starving North Africa

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After a hearing on a humanitarian crisis with millions of lives at stake in northeast Africa, U.S. Rep. Marco Rubio joined a bipartisan group of senators Thursday asking Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to intervene by leading an “urgent and comprehensive” diplomatic effort. Rubio and eight other senators signed a letter Thursday to President Donald Trump‘s secretary of state saying that political obstacles in northeastern Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen are significantly to blame for humanitarian aid from getting in, and consequently millions…

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At Sun City Center, Marco Rubio derides Patrick Murphy as an “old-fashioned liberal”

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Marco Rubio has been making the case that Patrick Murphy hasn’t accomplished much of anything during his four years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Now, with the polls tightening, he’s saying that the voting record of his Democratic rival in the U.S. Senate race is also too liberal. “Why does someone lie about their background, about things that they have done? Apparently because they haven’t done anything,” Rubio told a couple of dozens supporters at a clubhouse in Sun City Center in South Hillsborough…

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Kathy Castor hails energy-efficiency fix passed by U.S. House

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Is this a case of bipartisanship running amok in Washington all of a sudden? Not really, but last night the House of Representatives did come together, this time to pass what is being described as a modest piece of energy legislation called the “Energy Efficiency Improvement Act of 2015.” The Senate passed an earlier version, and the bill now goes to President Obama’s desk for signature. The bill will create a voluntary program for landlords and tenants to improve energy…

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