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• July 30, 2020

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  Meet the low-income communities eligible for powerful new small business relief in the Rubio-Collins Phase IV proposal

  One lesson of the last recession is that policymakers failed to adequately intervene on behalf of the country’s most vulnerable communities, who in turn experienced a very poor recovery. That lesson is made all the more salient today by the outsized impact the pandemic is having on poor and minority communities. While there’s a strong case for broadening eligibility for the enhanced 7(a) program, the Rubio-Collins proposal is rooted in communities that are experiencing the strongest headwinds in the current crisis. That is appropriate and worth commending.

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• July 27, 2020

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  Congress passes Wilson, Rubio bill to study societal forces affecting Black men

  The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate and Democratic-controlled U.S. House haven’t been able to pass a bill to change policing practices in response to nationwide protests after George Floyd’s death, but a more limited piece of legislation sponsored by Miami Democratic Rep. Frederica Wilson and Republican Sen. Marco Rubio was approved by Congress on Monday and heads to President Donald Trump’s desk for him to sign into law.

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• July 27, 2020

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  Rubio: We need safe team sports this fall. Let's help schools protect young athletes.

  Will schools reopen this fall? Every parent, teacher and school administrator is asking that question. Across the country, high school athletic directors, public school systems and local health officials are pondering another: if so, can high school athletes safely compete? My answer to both questions is yes, so long as Americans do their part to bring the coronavirus infection rate under control.

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• July 25, 2020

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  Sen. Marco Rubio: Trump right to shut Chinese consulate in Houston — it was a massive spying operation

  America’s adversaries, including China and Russia, use their consulates to conduct all sorts of nefarious activities. For the CCP, the Houston consulate served as a base of operations to exploit commercial joint ventures for state purposes and to gain access to advanced technology, proprietary information, and intellectual property in order to advance Beijing’s efforts to undermine U.S. economic and national security. Critically, the Houston consulate covered China's activities in seven states, including my home state of Florida.

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• July 15, 2020

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  Rubio: ‘At Some Point, Schools Really Do Need to Open’

  Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) weighed in on the possibility schools remain closed heading into the fall semester as the United States battles the coronavirus pandemic. Rubio acknowledged that schools across the country will likely remain closed if the number of cases in the state continues to be high, but he also pointed out how “risky” kids not learning will be and how difficult children not being in schools will be for working parents.

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