Rubio said the U.S. doesn't anticipate that it will need to exert military force in Venezuela, but reserves the right to do so to protect the "national interest of the United States."

Sen. Jim Risch (R-ID) wasn't having any of it as a protester began shouting during Secretary of State Marco Rubio's testimony on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.

Illinois Democrat Sen. Tammy Duckworth asks Secretary of State Marco Rubio whether the U.S. is currently in a state of war with Venezuela, on Wednesday morning during a hearing about Venezuela in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee SEN.

Secretary of state says US military not ‘postured’ for action as he defends Trump’s intervention to topple Maduro regime

Secretary of State Marco Rubio had barely started delivering his opening statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee when the first protester piped up — and was promptly escorted out of the room.

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a Virginia Democrat, criticized statements by Trump inferring opposition leader María Corina Machado lacked respect in Venezuela, while pressing Rubio to confirm that Maduro and Rodriguez did not legitimately win re-election in the last election there.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says that technical talks with officials from Denmark and Greenland over hatching an Arctic security deal are now underway.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Wednesday criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s assertion that the U.S.’s capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was not an act of war. During testimony in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,