please join me in welcoming to the national press club senator mark arubia. -- marco rubio. [applause] >> thank you for having me. it's my first time here in the three and a half years i served in washington. all of you would be here to talk about initiatives. let me begin by speaking about the night i was elected. the culmination of a year-and-a-half. a was a pretty difficult campaign. from my mother that i wasn't really just an election. as a promise of the country should come to love. when she and my father came to america and 1956 the camera a little more than the dream of better life. but even with the constraints this rural often on. the service jobs they took were not glamorous, but their artwork was dignified. the love my parents turn what they wanted most, life of security and a great american middle class. that night as she stood on the stage of me what she saw was the promise of america. just a few decades removed from our party struggle her son had been elected to the senate of the most important nation in the history of the world. the number of never been possib

first term florida senator mark arubia is one of the many republicans positioning themselves for the presidential primary. this past