Posted on 12/18/2015 11:26:09 AM PST by thetallguy24
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, on Friday defended his decision to skip a major vote in the Senate that afternoon to fund the government through September, and he took a swipe at a GOP rival who called on him to resign from Congress.
In an interview with CBS News' Face the Nation host John Dickerson, Rubio was asked to respond to Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, who told Politico Friday that Rubio should resign from the Senate after missing the critical vote.
"Look, I'm running for president," Rubio told Dickerson in Dubuque, Iowa ahead of his town hall. "We do our job everyday. Even before I got on the air with you today, we were going through some constituent service work where I'm personally intervening on behalf of people in our office. When there are important votes, especially those where I can be a decisive voice, I'm going to be there."
Rubio described the spending package as a "massive, grotesque piece of legislation" and explained he's focusing on the campaign trail in order to win election and prevent similar votes from happening again in Washington.
"That's why I'm out campaigning. I want these votes to start to matter again," he said.
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I loathe this loafer.
Didn’t he say several weeks ago that since he’s not going to run for his seat again, it doesn’t matter if he votes or not? Or something to that effect.
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