mr. rubio: mr. president, i come up to talk to the bill before us, senate bill 1. we've had multiple attempts to get on to this bill, and i'm hopeful that today will be that day. i wanted to briefly for just a moment divert to a different topic on venezuela, which has been in the news. just about an hour and a half ago, the administration announced additional measures. and it's been covered in the press largely as sanctions on the regime of president maduro, head of the criminal syndicate that controls security agency in that country. while it most certainly going to hurt him, i think it is important to say that venezuela sends about 5@billion barrels of crude -- 500 billion barrels of crude oil to the use per day. that belongs to the venezuelan people. u.s. refineries pay for t it is about three-quarters of the cash generated by the state-run oil company. and then maduro and his cronies steal that money, not to build roads or feed people, they use it to keep people loyal to him. if you are a high-ranking general in venezuela with a fancy uniform and stars and bars

mr. rubio. mr. sanders, mr. sasse, mr. schumer mr. scott, mrs. shaheen, mr. shelby, ms. cinema, mr. smith, ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan mr. chester, mr. mr. mr. toomey, mr. you doll, mr. van hollen, mr. warner, ms. warren, mr. white house, mr. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. young -- >> mr. pence: senate will be in order. a quorum is present under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved and the senate will be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak their -- for up to ten minutes each. t >> sen. mcconnell: i ask if we. >> the presiding officer: with s-res. 1. >> informing the president of the united states that a quorum of each house is assembled. >> is there an objection to the measure? >> the senate will. >> the presiding officer: to the measure. >> the resolution be agreed to, and laid upon there the table with no intervening action or debate. >> without objection. pursuant to senate resolution one, the chair appoints the senator from kentucky, and the senator from new york as a committee to jo

mr. rubio: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. rubio: in a few minutes here, 1:45 or so, the senate is going to vote to decide whether or not we're going to begin debate on the senate bill before us, senate bill 1. this is the strengthening american security in the middle east act. i want to remind everybody of why we began with this bill. i don't know what the number is but i would say the overwhelming majority of the members of the senate did not agree when the president decided that he was going to pull us out of syria for various different reasons. and everybody was asking us why don't you guys do something about it? as you know, it's difficult for the -- congress can't order the president to take military action. it can authorize it, fund it, defund it but it can't compel it. that's the role of the commander in chief. there are some things we can do because there were things we were concerned about in this decision. there are s

mr. rubio, what is your job? i'm a guard at the northeast illinois correctional center. what is this? an outdoor cell on the yard. we use it when an inmate acts up in the prison yard. and did anyone act up on september 14th of last year?

while mr. rubioare unspecified contingency options he will not reveal, analysts say the administration is not prepared with a plan b in case mr. maduro fights. do you want this administration to use military power if necessary to back up mr. guaido? >> number one, i'm not the ouster in chief or anything like it. the credit belongs to the venezuelan people. this is their movement. this is about them. they are courageous and facing imprisonme imprisonment. the decider here is the president, who has never needed convincing on venezuela. do i offer ideas? sure. he has a team around him. he has never needed convincing. he has raised it with me, the issue of venezuela, more than i raised it with him. he cares about this. as far as the analysts saying there's no plan b, how would they know? we wouldn't -- the government -- trump administration is not going to publish a plan, here is what we're going to do to keep our phones safolks safe. i have been in touch with the people in charge of this, they have a pl

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nelson, mr. rubio, mr. sanders, mr.>> the senate floor is a very useful place to get a lot done. your use -- you are face-to-face with everyone. it is a great voice. over theve to go all floor. it is unlike the house where they put a card in. rollcall votes are a good time to talk to colleagues, to do business. a lot of it is done across the aisle. the majority of this origin of the majority leader position is murky but began to develop during woodrow wilson's administration. >> in 1913, woodrow wilson had a on, he had a lot of ideas how government should be run. he suggested to the leaders of the democratic party they appoint a leader to be on the floor to represent him and his programs. they chose a junior member who is well-known nationally because he had run for vice president whose name was john wealth kearns. he took that front row center seat where the majority leader has set ever since -- set ever since. occupied it as leader of his party. the official title of majority leader doesn't come until the 1920's, but

nelson, mr. rubio, mr. sanders, mr.r is a useful place to get a whole lot done. your face-to-face with everyone. it's a great place to do business. >> it's all done orally, unlike the house where they put a card and. the roll call votes are good time to colleagues, do business. a lot of that is them across the that is done across the aisle. it's a little murky, but it began to develop during woodrow wilson's administration. >> when woodrow wilson became president, he had a lot of ideas about how government should be run. he suggested to the leaders of the democratic party that they appoint a leader to be on the floor to represent him and his program. his name is john with current -- worth kern. democratic leaders has sat there ever since. title, majority leader, doesn't come on until the 1920's. kern is doing the time -- kind of things that majority leaders have begun to do. when the republicans came in, they did the same thing. >> majority and minority leaders have become very visible actors in the senate. the power of

mr. rubio: mr. president, the senate is, what's before us right now is senate bill 1. and for those who are here today watching or home or will watch this later and are wondering what is it that the senate is doing other than coming down here and giving speeches, what we're trying to do is we're trying to start debate on a bill, on senate bill number 1. senate bill number 1 is the senate's effort to respond specifically not just to general events that are happening in the middle east, but in particular, the decision made a few weeks ago that the united states would be leaving syria and our presence there. at the time when that decision was made, i told everybody i thought it was a bad idea. a lot of people agreed and there's a lot of reasons why it is a bad idea. although i do think it is important any time we ask the american people to send their young men or women abroad -- in the case of syria it's about 2,000 special operators working alongside tens of thousands of kurdish and syrian democracy forces, democratic forces, any time we spend money or send americans abr

mr. rubio: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. rubio: a few moments ago, we welcomed our newest colleague and my colleague from the state of florida, our former governor, now u.s. senator rick scott who will do a phenomenal job here on behalf of the state of florida. i welcome him to the united states senate, the world's greatest deliberative body, and on occasion perhaps its strangest as well, for in about an hour and 15 minutes, the senate is going to take up senate bill 1, which is a combination of four separate bills that enjoy widespread support in this chamber from colleagues on both sides of the aisle, all of them sponsored, cosponsored by colleagues on both sides of the aisle, and apparently we will fail to get a significant number of votes to get on this bill, nonetheless. so it is perhaps one of the few places on earth where people vote against things they are for for reasons unrelated to the issue at hand. and i don't wa

mr. rubio: it's been an interesting start to this new congress. two weeks ago today, i believe.almost two weeks ago this week. we're in a shutdown, and then we had a vote here a few minutes ago to disapprove of a decision made by the administration. a lot of people would look at that and they would say that's a sign of weakness and division, and most certainly i don't like this shutdown. i hope that we can figure our way out of it quickly. a lot of people who have nothing to do with it are being hurt. my feelings about that or strong as well i don't think what the president is requesting is unreasonable. but the reason we have a shutdown is because at the end of the day everyone involved, no matter how long and how strongly they disagree, are willing to live by the constitution. and the constitution says that the only way you can fund the government is if the house and senate pass a spending bill and the president signs it into law. likewise, we had a vote a few minutes ago about a decision made by the administration to delist a russian company after some changes were made to th

mr. chair. in light of senator rubio's comments i'd like to note a caution -- he listed refugee flows, human rights abuses and corruption, there are lots of countries in the world who meet that description. our right or responsibility to generate regime change in a situation like that, i think is a slippery slope. i have some caution about what our vital interest are, and whether it is our right or responsibility to take action to try to change the government of another sovereign country. havesame description would led us into much more active involvement in syria for example, five or six years ago, in other parts of the country. i wanted to note that. senator burr, i loved your opening statement, it was very thoughtful. and you came one a wonderful formulation for, i think, a mission of this committee. it reminded me of my old high school football coach who put it somewhat less elegantly, he said he wanted us to be agile, mobile, and hostile. i think that may be a less elegant way to put the same principle. on huawei, it seems to me they have to decide they are either going to be a worldwide telec

rubio tried to be a leader there. the whole thing collapsed. i remember talking to mr. trump who was playing -- paying close attention to those failed talks. 2014arted making moves in for a presidential run in light of immigration in 2013. they were trying to do moderate reforms to immigration and she thought the voters wouldn't be with the party on that so maybe he could be the republican that took a far more conservative position. comments, respectfully, are part of this charged debate. immigration remains the most charged debate we cover. people wrap up the issues of the border and national identity, the economy. there are strong views on both sides. this is what both parties are dealing with in washington. people have passionate takes on immigration. passionske out these on the press, their lawmakers, elected officials. this is the environment in which the debate shutdown unfolds. host: what goes through your mind when you see stories as of goay, that joe biden might for it in 2020. guest: you go from the shutdown to biden. he is talking to his advisors. senator war

pat roberts of kansas, he's retiring and marco rubio, florida, people more traditionally conservative. where are we? is it just concerns and grumbling, mreed to see a strategy or mr. president, change course? >> ink it think it's rumblings spoke to lisa murkowski and she said she was going to bring this up not that she would get into a policy back and forth, but it's the issue of people are already coming into their offices and people are being affected by this shutdown and this is the wrong way to go, and we need to reopen while we continue to resolve the differences and those calls will start to grow. what will be interesting to see is in the past when there have been differences between republicans and the president on capitol hill when he goes to these senate lunches, oftentimes they will hold back and not say anything to his face. he's the president and he gives his monologue and maybe takes questions and maybe doesn't, you don't hear a lot of direct pushing on the president during these moments and it will be interesting to see whether he actually gets some of that today from people like senator murkowski and others and whether th

rubio tried tor be a leader, then the whole thing collapsed. that 2013 immigration fight is in part what led to the rise of president trump. i remember talking to then mr. trump in 2013 and 2014, he was paying attention to those failed immigration talks then. he started to make some moves towards a presidential run in 2014 in light of what happened on immigration in 2013. he saw an opening in the republican party that was trying to do moderate reforms to immigration. he thought voters would not be with the party on that, so maybe he could be the republican that took a far more conservative position. i think your comments, respectfully, are part of this charged debate. immigration remains probably the most charged debate we cover because people wrap it up with not only the issues at the border, but issues of national identity and the economy. there are strong views on both sides. this is part of what both parties are dealing with in washington. they know people have passionate takes on immigration. they at times take out these passions on the press. as some have today. they also take them out on lawmakers or elected officials. this is the environment in

rubio tried to be a leader there. the whole thing collapsed. i remember talking to mr.mp who was playing -- paying close attention to those failed talks. 2014arted making moves in for a presidential run in light of immigration in 2013. they were trying to do moderate reforms to immigration and she thought the voters wouldn't be with the party on that so maybe he could be the republican that took a far more conservative position. comments, respectfully, are part of this charged debate. immigration remains the most charged debate we cover. people wrap up the issues of the border and national identity, the economy. there are strong views on both sides. this is what both parties are dealing with in washington. people have passionate takes on immigration. passionske out these on the press, their lawmakers, elected officials. this is the environment in which the debate shutdown unfolds. host: what goes through your mind when you see stories as of goay, that joe biden might for it in 2020. guest: you go from the shutdown to biden. he is talking to his advisors. senator warren