The Senate on Monday resoundingly confirmed colleague Sen. Marco Rubio to be President Donald Trump’s secretary of State, making him the first member of the 47th president’s cabinet to win the chamber’s backing.
The swift Senate vote, 99-0, for Rubio followed shortly after the senior senator from Florida received unanimous support, 22-0, from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which he was a member for his 14 years in the Senate.
“Anyone in America who wants to see what American foreign policy looks like and get a good rundown on it, needs to watch [Rubio’s confirmation] hearing and watch the questions that were asked [of] Sen. Rubio and his answer to those questions,” Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, said to reporters as committee members were still filing into the room to cast their vote. “He was flawless in his presentation of American foreign policy.”
