CNN To Marco Rubio: Sanders & Rand Paul Have Missed Fewer Than 10 Votes, You've Missed 60

MARCO RUBIO: Well everyone needs to run their own campaign...





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GANGEL: Marco Rubio criticism over and over again that you keep missing votes on the Senate floor, forty-three percent of the votes. I know you say you're campaigning for President, but Bernie Sanders, Rand Paul, they've missed fewer than 10 votes, you're up at 59 or 60.



RUBIO: Well, everyone needs to run their own campaign. I can tell you that in the history of presidential politics, people have when they've been running for politics in the Senate, they've missed votes. And I'm not missing votes 'cause I'm on vacation.



GANGEL: This many votes?



RUBIO: Well, actually this is lower than what other people have missed. And here's the other point I would make. I'm running for President so that the votes they take in the Senate are actually meaningful again. A lot of these votes won't mean anything. They're not going to pass and, even if they did, the President would veto it. We can…



GANGEL: The other day, though, you got up on the Senate floor and you said federal workers who don't show up should be fired.



RUBIO: That's not what I said.



GANGEL: What did you say?



RUBIO: I said federal workers that aren't doing their jobs, that are not performing at their jobs, should be able to be fired, to be held accountable for not performing.



GANGEL: OK, so someone might say you're not showing up, you're not doing your job by voting.

RUBIO: Not true, not true.



GANGEL: You don't think you're in a glass house?



RUBIO: Because voting is not the only part of the Senate job. I mean the most important thing a Senator does is constituent service. We're still involved in looking out for Florida's issues.



GANGEL: Senate votes aren't important…

RUBIO: Of course, they're important.

GANGEL: …intelligence committee hearings aren't important?



RUBIO: We do all the intelligence briefings. I was just there this Tuesday. I got fully briefed and caught up on everything that's happening in the world.