Florida Sen. Marco Rubio may have talked a lot about voting against the spending bill that passed in Congress Friday — but he didn't actually do it. Just one day after vowing to use "every procedural aspect that we have to slow it down" in a Fox News interview, Rubio missed the vote on the $1.15 trillion deal, which marked the Senate's final vote of the year.
The latest missed vote is more fuel for Rubio's detractors, who have criticized him for missing more than half of the Senate's votes since October. Even Rubio's hometown newspaper, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel, has gone so far as to call for Rubio to resign from the Senate because of the number of votes he's missed — and that was back in October.
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