Rubio hints he may try to stall spending package
This from a Senator who has not shown up to vote very much lately!
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Rubio hints he may try to stall spending package
By Nick Gass
12/17/15 12:59 PM EST
Updated 12/17/15 01:06 PM EST
Marco Rubio on Thursday hinted he may try to stall passage of the massive tax and spending package, saying it's dangerous to not include a provision that would encourage greater scrutiny of Syrian refugees.
The Florida senator and GOP presidential candidate spoke both on Fox News and during a campaign event in Muscatine, Iowa, about the need to better vet such refugees after the recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California.
“If they’ve got [a] sufficient number of votes at the end, they can always ram it down our throat, but I think if we can add some days to it, the way Sen. [Jeff] Sessions is talking about and maybe some others, that process of slowing it down allows more Americans to wake up to the reality of what’s in the bill and perhaps as a result demand that their elected representatives do something to make those changes on things like the Syrian refugees we’re talking about now," Rubio said on Fox.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/marco-rubio-stall-tax-spending-package-216905#ixzz3ubiIHZYH
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