New research from American Bridge shows that Marco Rubio didn’t show up for work on behalf of Florida taxpayers EVERY YEAR he was in the Senate, not just the year in which he ran for president and lost 66 of Florida’s 67 counties to Donald Trump.
Marco Rubio’s lack of interest in doing his job extends back to his earliest days as a politician — since 2000 when he missed one-third of his committee hearings in the state legislature, to 2002 where he skipped nearly half of the Florida House’s 9/11 Committee meetings, to when he missed 30% of the classes he taught as a part-time professor at FIU, to his current absenteeism in the Senate that is the worst vote attendance record from a Florida senator in nearly 50 years.
Rubio has always failed to show up for work on behalf of Floridians:
Missed committee hearings (total across all committees)
percentage missed | |
2011 | 63% |
2012 | 71% |
2013 | 62% |
2014 | 60% |
2015 | 80% |
2016 | 57% |
Missed voting record (Worst compared to other senators)
2011 | 95th |
2012 | Tied 86th |
2013 | Tied 73rd |
2014 | 88th |
2015 | 100th |
2016 | 97th |
And when Rubio does actually show up to work, he’s ineffective for Florida. Only 2 of 96 bills that Rubio has introduced have become law.
Ineffective: Out of 96 bills Rubio introduced/sponsored, only 2 became law.
S 2845 Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Extension Act of 2016
S 802 Girls Count Act of 2015
S 802 Girls Count Act of 2015
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Published: Oct 24, 2016