Marco Rubio - U.S. Senate - 2010

Miami, FL – U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio today issued the following statement regarding Sunday’s U.S. Senate vote in favor of a $1.1 trillion spending bill:

“Yesterday’s vote on a $1.1 trillion spending bill is the latest sign that Washington continues ignoring the American people by failing to reign in out-of-control spending. It is outrageous that businesses and families have to trim their budgets, while Congress continues wasting away their tax dollars on a bill like this with more than 5000 earmarks and pay increases for government workers.

“Unfortunately, this is only the latest example of a 2009 congressional spending spree that started with a $787 billion stimulus and may end with a $1 trillion health care plan. Americans are right to be gravely concerned about this continued spending with money our government simply doesn’t have.

“As Congress prepares to use its next spending bill to increase the nation’s debt limit and President Obama talks about spending America’s way out of recession with a second stimulus, lawmakers must come to grips with how their excessive spending today is threatening our fragile economy as well as the long-term future of our nation.

“Having expressed his openness to a second stimulus, Charlie Crist should learn from his mistake of endorsing the first stimulus and join me in slamming the door shut on another. The American people deserve leaders in Washington who will fight to end this culture of spending malpractice.”