Marco Rubio Launches "New Set of Ideas" and Releases New Video

Former House Speaker Marco Rubio, the likely Republican candidate in the U.S. Senate race, unveiled a new Web video on Tuesday morning. He also announced, in an address in Tampa later in the day, that he would initiate a new phase of his campaign -- unveiling policies and ideas that he says will help jump-start the economy and make the federal government more effective.

"For over a year now, I've traveled across Florida and listened as people told me not only about the challenges they are talking about at their kitchen tables and the problems they see in Washington, but also about the solutions they want," said Rubio. "Today, I will begin laying out simple ideas to start to reclaim America's future from those in Washington who are taking us down the wrong path.

"All we hear out of Washington is talk of comprehensive plans while say-and-do-anything politicians utterly refuse to do the simple things to get our spending under control, our economy back on track and our health care costs lowered, said Rubio. Floridians want a leader to go to Washington to be a check-and-balance against the policies that are taking our country in the wrong direction, but also offer a clear and positive alternative. And that is what I promise Floridians.

"Some of these ideas will be so straightforward it's amazing that Washington has refused to do them, he added. And some will be controversial because politicians believe they aren't convenient to winning an election.

Rubio drew upon his experience in Tallahassee as a model for his current strategy. "When I was speaker, we put forth '100 Ideas' to improve Florida's future that were proposed to us by Floridians, concluded Rubio. Today in Tampa, we will begin proposing a new set of 'ideas'to help Floridians, grow our economy, get spending under control and reclaim America's future."