Sen. Marco Rubio
Former Senator for Florida
pronounced MAHR-koh // ROO-bee-oh
Rubio was a senator from Florida and was a Republican. He served from 2011 to 2025.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2024 Report Card for Rubio.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Rubio is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2021 to Mar 14, 2025. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Rubio was the primary sponsor of 43 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- S. 50 (118th): Pensacola and Perdido Bays Estuary of National Significance Act of 2024
- S. 3764 (118th): United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reauthorization Act of 2024
- S. 2626 (118th): MAHSA Act
- S. 1829 (118th): Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum Act of 2024
- S. 3629 (118th): Parity for Child Exploitation Offenders Act
- S. 832 (118th): International Port Security Enforcement Act
- S. 1687 (117th): Small Business Cyber Training Act of 2022
Does 43 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Rubio sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (34%) Health (13%) Armed Forces and National Security (13%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Taxation (8%) Commerce (8%) Education (7%) Foreign Trade and International Finance (7%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Rubio recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 5181 (118th): Make America Active Again Act
- S. 5249 (118th): NO GOTION Act
- S. 5202 (118th): FREED Act
- S. 5188 (118th): Patriotic Investment Act
- S.Res. 867 (118th): A resolution designating September 2024 as “National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month”.
- S. 5161 (118th): Preventing Antisemitic Harassment on Campus Act of 2024
- S. 5117 (118th): Frank Connor and Trooper Werner Foerster Justice Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2011 to Jan 2025, Rubio missed 442 of 4,600 roll call votes, which is 9.6%. This is much worse than the median of 2.6% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2025. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills