I'm going to be working the next 25 or 30 years. People like me, if we want, number one, for no benefit reductions for our parents and our grandparents, number two, for the system to survive and exist for us, and, more importantly, number three, for the system to exist for us children, we are going to have to make reforms to that system.

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Electoral history. Though largely supporting the Violence Against Women Act Rubio voted against the 2013 extension of the act because "it would divert funds from domestic violence programs to sexual assault programs". Tenure
Rubio was named Freshman of the Year by the Florida Petroleum Marketers Association.

A member of the Republican Party he previously served as Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives (2007–2009). Initially trailing by double-digits against the incumbent Republican Governor Charlie Crist Rubio eventually surpassed him in polling for the Republican nomination. Marco Antonio Rubio (born May 28 1971) is the junior United States Senator from Florida serving since January 2011.