Sen. Marco Rubio

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Rubio is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 21, 2024. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Marco Rubio sits on the following committees:

• Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chair
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues subcommittee Ranking Member

  Europe and Regional Security Cooperation, Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Appropriations
  Financial Services and General Government, Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies, Legislative Branch, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies, State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
• Senate Special Committee on Aging

Enacted Legislation

Rubio was the primary sponsor of 41 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

• S. 3764: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2024
• S. 2626: MAHSA Act
• S. 1829: Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum Act of 2024
• S. 832: International Port Security Enforcement Act
• S. 1687 (117th): Small Business Cyber Training Act of 2022
• S. 2159 (117th): A bill to designate the community-based outpatient clinic of the Department of Veterans Affairs located at 400 College Drive, Middleburg, Florida, as the “Andrew K. Baker Department …
• S. 3895 (117th): United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2022

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Does 41 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Rubio sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (35%) Health (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (12%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Taxation (8%) Commerce (8%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%) Education (7%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Rubio recently introduced the following legislation:

• S. 5181: Make America Active Again Act
• S. 5249: NO GOTION Act
• S. 5202: FREED Act
• S. 5188: Patriotic Investment Act
• S.Res. 867: A resolution designating September 2024 as “National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month”.
• S. 5161: Preventing Antisemitic Harassment on Campus Act of 2024
• S. 5117: Frank Connor and Trooper Werner Foerster Justice Act

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Nov 2024, Rubio missed 424 of 4,556 roll call votes, which is 9.3%. This is much worse than the median of 3.0% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills