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• May 27, 2020

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  House sends Uyghur human rights bill to Trump's desk

  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, believes “America cannot turn a blind eye to these facts.” He told me that he often thinks about his parents, who immigrated here from Cuba without advanced educations. His dad was a bartender. His mom was a maid. “If you went back 35 years and this was them today, they would both have been out of work now for two months and they would have been in a desperate, desperate situation,” he said. “That's the sort of thing that we need to think about.”

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• May 27, 2020

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  The Daily 202: Marco Rubio warns of instability without structural changes to help minorities in coronavirus recovery

  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, believes “America cannot turn a blind eye to these facts.” He told me that he often thinks about his parents, who immigrated here from Cuba without advanced educations. His dad was a bartender. His mom was a maid. “If you went back 35 years and this was them today, they would both have been out of work now for two months and they would have been in a desperate, desperate situation,” he said. “That's the sort of thing that we need to think about.”

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• May 22, 2020

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  Rubio wants probe of Planned Parenthood's coronavirus stimulus loans, says criminal charges possible

  Sen. Marco Rubio, chairman of the committee that oversees the Small Business Administration, demanded an investigation Friday into how Planned Parenthood affiliates were able to access coronavirus stimulus loans that the government now says they clearly didn’t qualify for. Mr. Rubio, Florida Republican, was joined by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and more than 100 other members of Congress in telling the SBA that canceling the loans — which he said the agency has already agreed to do — isn’t enough.

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• May 18, 2020

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  Rubio Named To Lead Senate Intel Committee

  Republican Senator Marco Rubio, a strong critic of China and Cuba, was named Monday to chair the powerful Senate Intelligence Committee while previous head Richard Burr is investigated in an insider trading scandal. "The senior senator for Florida is a talented and experienced Senate leader with expertise in foreign affairs and national security matters," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in announcing the temporary appointment.

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• May 13, 2020

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  Rubio says sustaining COVID-19 restrictions is “unrealistic”

  As the nation begins to reopen, Americans have increasingly begun to risk contracting the COVID-19 virus by not complying with the slew of “unrealistic” restrictions federal, state, and local governments have placed on them in order to mitigate the spread of the deadly disease.

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