Mar 26, 2015 ... Paul wasn't the only potential 2016 contender trying to increase defense  spending. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., along with Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.,  introduced an amendment to increase defense spending to $697 billion next year , a $78 billion increase. But the Rubio-Cotton amendment does not provide for ...
Mar 25, 2015 ... Marco Rubio of Florida and Tom Cotton of Arkansas are pushing an amendment  that would bring next year's defense spending to about $697 billion for the next  fiscal year with about $50 billion of which would be OCO money. By comparison,  the current Senate budget stands at about $619 billion, with $96 ...
Feb 25, 2016 ... The Democrats and Republicans vying for their parties' nominations have staked  out a range of positions on the wars in Iraq, Syria, and Libya, as well as on the  nuclear deal with Iran and relations with .... He voted for an amendment to  increase the defense budget to what some estimated was $697 billion.
At the eighth Republican presidential primary debate on February 6, 2016, Marco  Rubio discussed his electability as a first-term senator: "From protecting the ...  Cruz for pledging to grow the size of the military in a speech outside Charleston  Tuesday, saying Cruz had voted repeatedly against defense spending bills in the  ...
Throughout his life he volunteered for his father's campaigns. In 2010 he entered  politics by running for a seat in the United States Senate. A Republican, Paul has  described himself as a Constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea  Party movement and has advocated for a balanced budget amendment, term  limits ...
Says Marco Rubio "knows full well I voted for his amendment to increase military spending to $697 billion."