{"id":29576,"date":"2016-12-13T08:43:22","date_gmt":"2016-12-13T16:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=29576"},"modified":"2016-12-13T08:43:22","modified_gmt":"2016-12-13T16:43:22","slug":"senator-rubio-has-serious-concerns-about-tillerson-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=29576","title":{"rendered":"Senator Rubio Has &#8220;Serious Concerns&#8221; About Tillerson Nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL&#8230;U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s intention to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state:  \u201cWhile Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns about his nomination. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lakesidenews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/220px-Marco_Rubio_Official_Portrait_112th_Congress.jpg\" alt=\"220px-marco_rubio_official_portrait_112th_congress\" width=\"220\" height=\"279\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18464\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The next secretary of state must be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is free of potential conflicts of interest, has a clear sense of America&#8217;s interests, and will be a forceful advocate for America&#8217;s foreign policy goals to the president, within the administration, and on the world stage. I look forward to learning more about his record and his views.\u200e I will do my part to ensure he receives a full and fair but also thorough hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, FL&#8230;U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) issued the following statement regarding President-elect Donald Trump\u2019s intention to nominate ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state: \u201cWhile Rex Tillerson is a respected businessman, I have serious concerns about his nomination. The next secretary of state must be someone who views the world with moral clarity, is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/220px-Marco_Rubio_Official_Portrait_112th_Congress.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}