Marco Rubio in 2022 FL Senate race

On Budget & Economy: Paycheck Protection Program most effective relief program

On Free Trade: Ban Xinjiang trade to fight Communist China on human rights

UN experts have estimated that more than one million people, mainly Muslim Uighurs, have been imprisoned in recent years in a vast system of camps in Xinjiang. The US and many rights groups have called it "genocide".

"It is a horrifying human rights situation, fully sanctioned--as we now know--by the Communist Party of China," Marco Rubio, the lead Republican sponsor of the bill, said. China has rejected allegations of abuse in Xinjiang, accusing countries of launching "slanderous attacks" about conditions for Uighurs. An independent UK-based tribunal ruled last week the Chinese government had committed genocide, crimes against humanity and torture of Uighurs and other minorities. [See S.65 for details of bill]

On Homeland Security: Shouldn't rely on China for our prescription drugs

RUBIO: The result of it now is that there is invariably going to be supply chain issues and disruptions. But, long term, the question is, should we rely, as a nation, on something as important as medicine? Should we rely so heavily on a single foreign country, particularly one who's a near peer adversar?

On Budget & Economy: Supports emergency relief to be spent immediately

RUBIO: What I won't support is things that are not emergency relief. What we're going to ask for Florida is what we supported for every other state in the country that's been affected by natural disasters, and that is emergency relief designed to be spent immediately to help the people affected now.

On Energy & Oil: Produce more American oil and not buy Russian oil

On Foreign Policy: Prisoner swaps put a price tag on Americans

RUBIO: The two Venezuelans that were released are the nephews of Maduro who happen to be convicted drug dealers. The seven Americans were hostages. That has now put a price tag on Americans. What that has done is now sent a message to tyrants and dictators all over the world to go ahead and trump up some charges and arrest Americans because, when the time comes, we will be able to exchange them.

On Free Trade: Assume something made in China is from slave labor

Sen. MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): We passed a bill that says, if something is made in a factory in that part of China, we are going to presume it's made by slave labor, and not allow it into the country, unless companies can prove that that's not the case. I think there are many American companies, like Nike and others, that have definitely benefited from the supply chain that's located in that part of the world. We saw the lobbying efforts of Apple, of Nike and others arguing that this would raise the costs for consumers. But, ultimately, it's slave labor.

On Government Reform: Vice President doesn't have power to overturn election

RUBIO: If President Trump runs for reelection, I believe he would defeat Joe Biden, and I don't want Kamala Harris to have the power as vice president to overturn that election. That's the same thing that I concluded back in January of 2021.

Q: So Donald Trump was wrong?

RUBIO: If a vice president has that power, Donald Trump would defeat Joe Biden in two years, and then Kamala Harris can decide to overturn the election. I don't want to wind up there.

Q: What about the Congressional January 6th investigation?

RUBIO: I think that commission is a scam. I think it's a complete partisan scam. And I think anyone who committed a crime on January 6 should be prosecuted and, if convicted, put in jail. I do not believe that we need a congressional committee to harass Americans that weren't even in Washington on January 6, that were not in favor of what happened on that day, have condemned what happened on that day, but they want to smear them anyway.

On War & Peace: There is no U.S. combat role in Ukraine; use sanctions

On War & Peace: A no-fly zone in Ukraine means World War III