Rubio, Bondi Shine During Senate Confirmation Hearings
Senate Democrats tried their best to derail Senator Marco Rubio and former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi during their Senate confirmation hearings, but those efforts never took off.
Sen. Rubio is well respected and liked by many of his Democratic colleagues, so expect him to cruise into the Secretary of State position. Put a fork in it, Rubio is in.
Bondi, on the other hand, faced constant scrutiny by Senators Alex Padilla, Sheldon Whitehead, Dick Durbin, and others, who all tried to press Bondi to say that she would weaponize the Attorney General's office for President Donald Trump and to admit that the 2020 Presidential election was rigged.
She didn't bite. Instead, she planted her foot squarely across their faces.
“If confirmed as United States Attorney General, my overriding objective would be to return the Department of Justice to its core mission of keeping Americans safe and vigorously enforcing the law."—Pam Bondi
Florida Senator Rick Scott introduced his friend and former colleague, saying that Bondi was the right person to fix the problematic and weaponized Department of Justice.
"Under her leadership, the DOJ will actually fairly enforce the laws, protect the rights of the American people, and keep our nation safe, and crack down on violent crimes and dangerous drugs, and the American people will trust her to do so," said Sen. Scott. "I know that well because I worked alongside Pam Bondi for eight years when I was governor of Florida and she was Florida's elected Attorney General, working to improve the lives of Floridians, to make Florida the best state in the nation to live, work and raise a family."... READ MORE
Rubio's Ominous Warning About China
The Chinese are bad and they want to control the world.
That pretty much sums up Senator Rubio's take on the growing Chinese threat to America. Communist China is coming after the US with a vengeance and is now targeting food security. MUST READ
Byron Donalds-There are few people on Capitol Hill with as much foreign policy knowledge as @marcorubio
He knows the plan.
He knows the details.
He knows what it takes
And he's going to do a great job implementing President Trump's Peace Through Strength–America First foreign policy agenda.
Congressman Jared Moskowitz-The news of a hostage deal between Israel & Hamas is greatly encouraging. Only because of military realities on the ground has Hamas finally agreed to a ceasefire. Thanks to both @POTUS
and @realDonaldTrump for helping make the return of these hostages a bipartisan issue.
Kat Cammack-Marco has been consistently tough on China, which is what we need more than ever. He understands their strategy, the threat and how to tackle China. The Senate should confirm @marcorubio
asap!
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Juice is squeezed by Javier Manjarres, Liv Caputo, and Daniel Molina
