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Rubio Supports Measures To Cut Federal Spending

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Fulfilling promises made during the campaign, Rubio joins Senate Republican efforts to ban earmarks, cut spending and restore fiscal discipline in Washington

Washington, DC – U.S. Senator-elect Marco Rubio issued the following statement after today’s Senate Republican Conference meeting, where a series of measures to cut federal spending were approved:

“With today’s votes, I’m proud to have joined my colleagues in sending a strong message that Senate Republicans will be a clear policy alternative to the direction that Washington’s big-spending politicians have been taking our country.  These are important steps in what will be a long, hard-fought process to shake up the culture of wasteful spending in Washington and get serious about tackling a $13.5 trillion debt that is a barrier to creating jobs and a threat to national security.

“Over the past two years, I have met thousands of Floridians who understand the consequences our federal debt has on short-term job creation but also the lasting impact it will have on future generations of Americans who will spend their lives working to pay for this recklessness.  I’ve made a commitment to Floridians to tackle this debt problem and am proud to officially support these ideas that we campaigned on as a starting point.”

With today’s Senate Republican Conference vote, Rubio is already working to enact the ideas he proposed to cut spending in July 2010.

During today’s Senate Republican Conference meeting, Rubio voted for the following resolutions:

• Sen. Lamar Alexander’s resolutions place a moratorium on creating new unfunded mandates and new entitlement programs.

• Sen. John Cornyn’s resolution states that a Balanced Budget Amendment to the United States Constitution is necessary to restore fiscal discipline.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s resolution states that unspent stimulus funds should be canceled.

• Sen. Jon Kyl’s resolution states that there should be a net federal hiring freeze on non-security employees.

• Senator Mitch McConnell’s resolution calls on Democrats to adopt an earmark moratorium.

• Sen. John Thune’s resolution states that non-security discretionary spending should be reduced to inflation-adjusted FY 2008 levels.The resolution would save approximately $450 billion over ten years, and such a reduction should be enforced through discretionary spending caps.

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