Marco Rubio's file:
Rubio

Republican from Florida

Marco Rubio, a former Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, was elected to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 2, 2010. He took office Jan. 5, 2011.

Recent statements involving Marco Rubio

"91 percent of Latinos support the DREAM Act, which allows undocumented youth to attend college," but Marco Rubio opposes it.

"No candidate has run more negative ads in American history than Barack Obama did in 2008, especially in the general.’’

Says Mitt Romney "was one of the first national Republican leaders to endorse" Marco Rubio.

Says his parents "came to America following Fidel Castro's takeover" of Cuba.

"In (Sen. Marco) Rubio's state of Florida alone, Social Security lifts more than -- count it -- a million people out of poverty."

Recent stories featuring Marco Rubio

Contest for Hispanic vote heats up GOP primary:

We fact-check two claims as Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich fight for the Hispanic vote in the Republican primary for president.

PolitiFact Florida’s top 10 fact-checks of 2011:

We look back at our most popular reports of 2011: fact-checks of Marco Rubio, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Rick Scott and Alan Grayson. And then there was that Evan Longoria viral video ...

Marco Rubio's Cuba history gets tested:

Did Rubio's parents come to America following Fidel Castro's takeover?

Marco Rubio's Cuba history gets tested:

U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio now says he got his dates wrong when he told reporters that his parents left Cuba in the middle of Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution.

Mailbag: Readers don't like our ruling on Marco Rubio's Social Security claim:

We recently said Marco Rubio was right to claim that the number of workers per retiree in the Social Security system had dropped from 16 to 3. Readers let us have it.

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