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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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Marco Rubio quickly keeps promise to stand up to Donald Trump in U.S. Senate

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Marco Rubio promised during his campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate that he would stand up to Donald Trump when necessary. “Necessary” didn’t take long to arrive. It came Wednesday during a confirmation hearing for Rex Tillerson, Trump’s choice for Secretary of State. Rubio responded with what I thought was his finest hour as the junior senator from Florida. He showed plenty of backbone, conviction and passion in relentlessly hammering Tillerson about his stance (or non-stance) on Russia’s appalling…

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‘Little’ Marco Rubio holds big cards in Rex Tillerson confirmation

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We all remember when presidential candidate Donald Trump stuck Republican opponent Marco Rubio with the label of “Little Marco.” It’s hard to say if that insult led directly to Trump’s sizable thumping of Rubio in the Florida primary, but it’s worth mentioning because “Little” Marco holds perhaps the biggest card in Trump’s push to confirm Rex Tillerson as Secretary of State. Rubio sits on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where Tillerson is expected to appear Wednesday as part of the…

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Email insights: Marco Rubio and his four-minute smackdown

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It was a terrible week for “self-proclaimed foreign policy expert” U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, says the Democratic National Committee in a new email to supporters. Four minutes is all it took for Rubio, a possible White House candidate for 2016, to be “schooled” in Middle East foreign policy by Secretary of State John Kerry. It all started when the Miami Republican became one of the 47 U.S. senators who signed a “reckless letter” undermining President Obama’s international negotiating ability with Iran.…

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