A veteran of the Foreign Relations Committee, Rubio is widely seen as one of Trump's least controversial Cabinet picks and is expected to sail through the nomination process.

Mr. Rubio expressed views aligned with those of most senators who work on foreign policy, while taking care not to break from Donald J. Trump’s unorthodox ideas.

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is receiving a warm welcome at his confirmation hearing to become secretary of State.

Donald Trump's former primary opponent Sen. Marco Rubio is meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday as the president-elect's secretary of state nominee.

During a relatively friendly confirmation hearing, Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for secretary of state, told lawmakers that “the 21st century will be defined by what happens between the United States and China.

Marco Rubio offered this position on the Ukraine War during a confirmation hearing Wednesday to serve as Donald Trump's secretary of state: MARCO RUBIO: It is also unrealistic to believe that somehow a nation size of Ukraine,

Sen. Marco Rubio used his confirmation hearing Wednesday to warn a Senate panel that China might move against Taiwan before the decade is over and that a potential ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine must provide the Ukrainians with sufficient leverage to deter a repeat invasion in the future.