This Week in the Office of Senator Marco Rubio On Monday, I released a statement ahead of my vote to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to be an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Read more here.  On Monday, I sent a letter to President Donald Trump encouraging him to promptly exercise his constitutional authority and grant Deferred Enforced Departure (DED) to eligible Venezuelan nationals currently in the U.S. As an original co-sponsor of the Venezuela Temporary Protected Status and Asylum Assistance Act of 2019 , I have repeatedly advocated a temporary solution for Venezuelans for whom it is too dangerous to return home. Read more here.  On Wednesday, as Chairman of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, I released a statement after the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Inspector General (IG) issued its initial report titled, “Inspection of Small Business Administration’s Initial Disaster Assistance Response to the Coronavirus Pandemic,” warning of fraudulent activity in the COVID-19 EIDL advance and loan program. Read more here.  On Thursday, as Acting Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, I released a statement on The New York Times’ decision to publish the “Anonymous” opinion piece. Read more here.  On Friday, as Americans prepare to change their clocks this Sunday, Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) and I reminded Americans of our proposals to end the antiquated practice of clock changing. Read more here.  On Monday, Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), John Cornyn (R-TX), Ben Cardin (D-MD) and I sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo renewing our request for the State Department to issue a formal determination of whether the atrocities being committed in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region amount to genocide. Read more here.  On Tuesday, I joined U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), Mike Lee (R-UT), and James Lankford (R-OK) in sending a letter to the CEO of the College Board to reexamine its relationship with the Confucius Institute Headquarters. Read more here.  On Tuesday, I joined Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Todd Young (R-IN), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Cory Gardner (R-CO), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Chris Coons (D-DE), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) in calling on the Trump Administration to impose sanctions on senior commanders of Bangladesh’s Rapid Action Battalion, which has reportedly killed more than 400 people extrajudicially since 2015. Read more here.  Legislation Introduced- On Monday, I joined Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Chairman and Ranking Member, respectively, of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, in introducing a bipartisan resolution to designate human rights abuses perpetrated by the People’s Republic of China against Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang as genocide. Read more here.
- On Monday, I introduced the American Financial Markets Integrity and Security Act , legislation that would prohibit malign Chinese companies — including the parent, subsidiary, affiliate, or a controlling entity — that are listed on the U.S. Department of Commerce Entity List or the U.S. Department of Defense list of Communist Chinese military companies from accessing U.S. capital markets. Read more here.
- On Monday, I introduced the Adversarial Platform Prevention (APP) Act , legislation that would establish a set of data protection- and censorship-related standards and restrictions that must be met by high-risk foreign software, like Chinese-owned TikTok and WeChat, in order to legally operate in the United States. The APP Act comes after I announced in an op-ed that I would introduce legislation and called on policymakers to “adopt a more expansive approach to protecting data and our national security.” The bill would require a warning label, annual public disclosures, and localization requirements for U.S. data and would remove Section 230 protections for covered high-risk foreign software. Read more here.
In Case You Missed It...“Rubio unveils bill to kick blacklisted Chinese firms out of U.S. markets” (Reuters, 10/27/20) “For the past twenty years, Rubio said, the left has argued that coalitions tend to form around race, gender, and ethnicity…’The first thing that comes to mind for people every single day is not your ethnicity, it’s the fact that you’re a husband or a wife, a father or a mother, an employee, a volunteer or a coach—somebody who has a role to play.’” (The Republican Identity Crisis After Trump, The New Yorker, 10/23/20) “Rubio warns of foreign interference around Election Day” (Fox News, 10/29/20) “Marco Rubio, Rick Scott vote to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court” (Miami Herald, 10/26/20) “Rubio, Cornyn Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Designate Uighur Camps as Genocide” (The Washington Free Beacon, 10/27/20) “Last month, Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott filed legislation that would keep the U.S. on Daylight Saving Time through November of 2021, arguing it would provide "stability" for families amid the disruptions of COVID-19.” (Get ready to 'fall back' this weekend as Daylight Saving Time ends, Fox 13 Tampa Bay, 10/27/20) |
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