The one who's excuse for not showing up for important votes: WASHINGTON-- Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) defended his poor attendance record in the Senate -- where he maintains the highest absentee rate of any senator running for president -- by suggesting that voting isn't the most important aspect of the job.
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In an appearance on NBC's "Today Show,"
Rubio rejected the notion that he has been selling his Florida constituents
short by attending campaign events and fundraisers instead.
"No,
in fact the majority of the job of being a senator is not walking on to the
Senate floor and lifting your finger on a noncontroversial issue and seeing
which way you're going to vote," he said. "The majority of the work
of a senator is the constituent service to committee work, that continues
forward unabated."
He
added: "My ambitions aren't for me; my ambitions are for the country and
Florida. And that's why I'm running for president."
