Rubio Leads Republican Charge to Block Obama’s Cuba Policy Florida Senator Marco Rubio, who may run for president in 2016, is leading a Republican charge to do everything possible to block President Barack Obama’s move to normalize relations with Cuba. Yet even Rubio says there may be little the Republican-controlled Congress can do. “I would concede that many of the changes that have been made today, such as diplomatic relations, fall within the purview of the presidency,” Rubio told reporters yesterday in Washington. Rubio, whose parents left Cuba in 1956, said Republican lawmakers will “use every tool at our disposal in the majority to unravel as many of these changes as possible.” Blocking funds for an embassy in Cuba and refusing to confirm an ambassador to the island nation are steps Rubio and others in his party suggested Congress might be able to take. “We’re going to have a very interesting couple of years discussing how you’re going to get an ambassador nominated and how you’re going to get an embassy funded,” said Rubio, who is set to become chairman of a panel that oversees foreign relations in the Western Hemisphere. The White House shot back at Rubio today, with spokesman Josh Earnest calling it “odd” that the senator [...] ilinnews/rubio-leads-republican-charge-to-block-obamas-cuba-policy-5/
Posted on: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 09:01:22 +0000
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