U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) office will host in-person and virtual Mobile Office Hours next week to assist constituents with federal casework issues in their respective local communities. These office hours offer constituents who do not live close to one of...
Every year, the Congressional Management Foundation (CMF) recognizes Members of Congress for their non-legislative achievements in operations, communications, and constituent services. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) was awarded the 2024 Democracy Award for...
El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) emitió el siguiente comunicado sobre la toma de posesión del presidente panameño José Mulino: “A principios de este año, tras un proceso electoral pacífico y democrático, el pueblo de Panamá eligió al Presidente José...
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the inauguration of Panamanian President José Mulino: “Earlier this year, following a peaceful and democratic electoral process, the people of Panama elected President José Mulino as their new...
Each year, the U.S. Department of State releases to Congress its International Religious Freedom Report. This report highlights the status of religious freedom in countries worldwide. U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding the release...
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio’s (R-FL) office will host in-person and virtual Mobile Office Hours next week to assist constituents with federal casework issues in their respective local communities. These office hours offer constituents who do not live close to one of...
Earlier today in Miami, Senator Rubio held a human trafficking-related press conference with local elected officials after a tour of the Kristi House’s Emergency Drop-in Shelter. The event served to raise awareness about the human trafficking problem in Florida and across the country as well as highlight recent government efforts to combat it.
At the event, Rubio highlighted several of his legislative efforts in the fight against human trafficking, urging Congress to re-authorize the Trafficking Victims Protection Act and pass the End Trafficking in Government Contracting Act of 2012, a bill he and his colleagues introduced earlier this year. Rubio also reiterated the importance of demanding action from Village Voice Media executives.
Earlier today, Senators Rubio, Kirk, Blumenthal, Cornyn, Durbin, and Akaka wrote a letter to Scott Tobias, CEO of the newly formed Voice Media Group, Inc. outlining the necessary steps the company should take to end online prostitution advertising.
Nineteen U.S. senators, 51 attorneys general, dozens of human rights organizations, clergy members and citizens have called for Village Voice Media to do the right thing and eliminate the “adult entertainment” section of Backpage.com, a major facilitator of child sex trafficking and the leading website for prostitution solicitation in the U.S. Instead, executives chose to avoid the public relations disaster Backpage.com caused by opening a new company to control all of Village Voice Media’s assets except for Backpage.com.
Senator Rubio and his five colleagues expressed their disappointment in the lack of action these executives took to end the sexual exploitation of minors on Backpage.com and insisted the executives “take the steps necessary to terminate the prostitution advertising on Backpage.” The senators affirmed they would “continue to hold any current or former Village Voice Media subsidiaries and related successor corporate structures accountable until such action has been achieved.”