mr. rubio: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: mr. president, my shall it might surprise some people here that while what we are dealing with here are is important, we're not the center of the universe. all across this country, as i was reminded of this morning, calling home and speaking to friends and family and my wife, my children, life goes on. most americans i think are aware that there's an issue going on here in washington, d.c., with regards to funding the government, but i doubt very few of them are sitting in front of the cnn countdown clock -- or now i guess we're into the ticker because we're into the countdown. it's the reality that life goes on. so because people aren't following this every single day and aren't checking their phones on a 15-minute basis to see how this is going to be fixed, i think that lost people are confused. maybe some people have the perception that this is all about a disagreement regular the budget and/or a disagreement solely is about an issue that is of critical importance and we need to deal r

rubio: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: i want to begin by thanking senator nelson for once again raising this on the floor and i'm glad to be able to follow him. just to be able to make many of the same points about the importance of acting on this. long after the cameras leave and long after the stories aren't being written, real people and real lives are disrupted, sometimes permanently. and certainly in ways that we don't come to think about. we come to think about hurricane damage as roofs being ripped off of buildings and trees in the roads. l but once that's picked up, everything is back to normal. what we don't recognize is that underneath all of that is the long-term damage done a small business that went two weeks without any sort of income and so they closed. it is the impact we see in the florida keys where we have a lot of people that used their retirement savings to buy a small property they rent out in the florida keys -- very common; you buy a small townhouse, you rent it out in the winter to people th

senate talks to protect dreamers and pushing a more conservative approach, you might remember that mr. rubio part of the gang of eight that come up with a water immigration reform package during the obama administration. immigrationader package during the obama demonstration. now they are gathering in senator collins office and senator grams office trying to come up with some's resolution to go forward. proposal house put a pens and paper yesterday in the new york times said it is taken or leave it. but they would get a pathway to citizenship for the daca participants and even more populations -- a larger population of them in exchange for $25 billion for the wall. more details in the papers this morning and a note about next week. the president delivers his first state of the union address, and our coverage will begin at 8:00 p.m. eastern time, it was announced that representative joe kennedy will be delivering the democratic response to trumps state of the union. lateennedy, nephew of the president and the great nephew of former president john f. kennedy, 37 years old on the rising star th

mr. brown. >> good morning. chairman rubio and other distinguished members of the committee. thank you for your invitation to discuss health had attacks involving u.s. personnel in their families. i share your concerns regarding the safety and security of our personnel in cuba and welcome any discussion that may lead to a better ntdsing of this issue and stronger safeguards for our employees. from a security and investigative standpoint we continue to work at embassy havana to counter, mitigate and better understand who or what are causing injuries to our dip wlumatic staff. unfortunately this remains a perplexing case. our regional officer first became aware of attacks involving personnel in late december 2016. in the early stages of trying to understand what may be occurring, post leadership and supporting offices in washington believed it was likely a form of harassment by forces hostile to the united states and our presence in cuba. as more incidents were reported in early 2017 and greater awareness of the seriousness of symptoms became known our level of concern and miti

fisher, gardner, heller, kennedy, mansion, m murkows murkowski, perdue, roberts, rounds, rubio, tillis and young. mr. warner. senators voting in the negative. baldwin, blumenthal, booker, brown, cantwell, casey, durbin, feinstein, graham, harris, hasson, heinrich, cane, king, leahey, menendez, murphy, murray, paul, peters, reed, sanders, shots, schumer, shaheen, smith, stab now, van hol lin, warner, warren, whitehouse and widen. mr. lee, no. mr. jones, aye. mr. tesser, no. mr. gill grabrand, no. >> we heard that senator lindsey graham did vote no. at least one republican vote no. we also just heard senator jon tester vote no. a democrat of montana who was one of the senators the republicans thought they were going to be able to get. this vote is clearly going against the republicans. >> to hear lindsey graham voting no as we just did, jon tester voting no immediately after that call of the roll, at this point it doesn't look like there's a possibility for the republicans in this vote. >> no. i think thenlyhance mitch mcconnell has is slim to none and slim left town. you heard bob casey vote no. i on

mr. president, are you racist? >> florida senator rubiourbello strongly distanced themselves from the president's remarks including 3,000 haitian americans some who protested the comments yesterday while commemorating eighth anniversary of the country's devastating earthquake. on david lederman netflix show, guest, none other than former president obama. >> one of the things that michelle figured out in some ways faster than i did was, you know, part of your ability to lead the country doesn't have to do with legislation, it doesn't have to do with regulations, it has to do with shaping attitude, shaping culture, increasing awareness. >> as soon as the president is finished at the golf club, he is expected to then motorcade back to his winter white house at mar-a-lago on palm beach, only about 8 or 10-minute drive and the president has no public events scheduled not only today tomorrow or monday and it is monday afternoon we expect that the president and first lady melania and son baron will be boarding on air force one and returning to th

made their names, he distinguishes himself from bush and rubio and the republican field, he is popular with the republican base, suddenly he is mrmexican rapist, muslim ban, and then he decided okay, hey, the the wall. and no one else was willing to go there. he married immigrants. >> here's steve king. a hard liner. >> i'm not going to the white house. there won't be anybody at the white house that opposes amnesty. i think the president shares the view with the people he is going to be discussing this with today and it's not the view he had during the campaign. but if he grants daca amnesty then that's off the table and he will take rank with maybe the same mistake that ronald reagan made which was signing the amnesty act in 1986. >> we checked on ann coulter and she said this, nothing michael wolff could say about donald trump could hurt him as much as the daca love fest right now. >> what i'm hearing from her on twitter is the president that we elected to give us a wall and no amnesty is going to give us amnesty and no wall. >> if you put your faith in demagogues you are going to be disappointed. he didn't believe any of it.

mr. speaker, along with many of my colleagues in this chamber, both of florida's senators, marco rubio and bill nelson, and our governor, rick scott, will make sure florida's voice is heard loud and clear on this issue. we don't want drilling near florida's shores. we don't need drilling near florida's shores, and we will not allow this or any administration to put our conomy or our environment at risk. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor dale adamson, a dedicated teacher of mathematics at howard dean mcmillan school in my district and a recent recipient of the prestigious milkin educator award. central to his selection was his classroom report with -- rapport with students, explaining concepts through areas. ld not lecturing abstract theories at the chalkboard, he gave world renowned knowledge for exciting his students with real world problems like how algentleman bra was used bies n a -- algebra was used by nasa. or one might observe launching objects off the school's roof. the foundation model states that the future belongs to the teachers. as a proud father of two daughters in this scho

rubio. >>> the president is pushing a $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild highways, bridges, and other infrastructure. but where will the money come from? why mr's solution may not be enough. >>> facebook faces rising pressure to delete a new messaging app designed just for kids. more than

rubio. >>> the president is pushing a $1.5 trillion plan to build highways, bridges, and other infrastructure, but where will the money come from. why mrump's solution may not be enough. >>> facebook's rising pressure to delete an app designed just for kids.

rubio. >>> the president is pushing a $1.5 trillion plan to build highways, bridges, and other infrastructure, but where will the money come from. why mr. trump's solution may not be enough. >>> facebook's rising pressure to delete an app designed just for kids. they say it could damage a child's development. >>> plus, a local newspaper reporter uncovers what he believes to be the last ship to bring slaves to the u.s. we talk to two cousins who say their ancestor was onboard that snipe but we begin with today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> my duty is to defend americans and their right to the american dream because americans are dreamers too. >> the president calls for unity in a marathon state of the union. >> many of the democrats looked like they had bitten a lemon. >> joe kennedy. >> a government that struggles to keep itself open, russia, knee-2k50e7 in our democracy, a justice department rolling back civilian rights by the day. >> a classified memo on the russia dwgs is now in the hands of president trump. he was heard having this exchange. >> >> the worker who sent out that false missile alert in hawaii has been fi

rubio. i was doing backgrounders. i was helping with press releases and statements during the campaign. i did the same thing for governor walker. i did briefings for governor christie. i never talked to mr. trump. he didn't ask and i did not offer. what most of the republicans out here in washington, dizzy -- washington. i was coming from the more conventional, republican style of rhetoric. trump duringd mr. the primary. as it started winding down and the field started getting smaller, his style concerned me. the fact that the people i knew who knew about these subjects -- this concerned me. i voiced these concerns. i was not shy about that. and thisy this -- would be another piece of advice coming to this town. serious to really get with deep down convictions about what your principles are. and not to confuse your principles with policy and not to confuse runcible's with style and approach. -- this has been a big gift that donald trump has given to the country. politics in aized way so we are reassessing and trying to figure out our principles and priorities. and you want to be able to be willing to admit when you were wrong. not to be dogmatic. not to get into groupthink. and to reeva

rubio. >>> the president is pushing a $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild highways, bridges, and other infrastructure. but where will the money come from? why mrtrump's solution may not be enough. >>> facebook faces rising pressure to delete a new messaging app designed just for kids. more than 100 public health advocates say it could damage a child's development. >>> plus a local newspaper reporter uncovers what he believes to be the last ship to bring slaves to the u.s. we explore the site and talk to two cousins who say their ancestor was on board that ship. >>> but we begin this morning with a look at today's "eye opener." your world in 90 seconds. >>> my duty is to defend americans and their right to the american dream, because americans are dreamers too. >> the president calls for unity in a marathon state of the union. >> many democrats looked like they had bitten a couple of lemons, even when he was saying things that most people agreed with. >> a government that struggles to keep itself open. russia knee-deep in our democracy. rolling back civil rights by the day. >> a classified memo on the russia investigation is now in the hands of

rubio. i was doing backgrounders and doing -- and helping press releases during a campaign. i did the same thing for governor walker. i did briefings for governor christie. i never talked to mr. trump. i was sort of advising what most of the republicans out here in washington d.c., who they were working with an advising, and i would never cross paths. i was coming from the more conventional republican style of rhetoric and the ronald reagan style of speaking and that sort of thing. opposedmposed -- i even mr. trump during the primary. as we started winding down in the field got smaller, his style concerned me. the fact that the people that i knew who knew the subjects were not talking to him, concerned me. and so, i voiced my concerns. i wasn't shy about that. and then i will say this, and this will be another piece of advice with working in this town and in being an american in general and the way politics work -- you want to really get serious and have deep down convictions about what your principles are. and not to confuse your principles with policy. and not to confuse principles with sort of style and approach. ok? giftsas been one of the that donald trump and his admin