Wall Street Journal, The

Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) had a rough time after he stirred a backlash among conservative Republicans with his quest to revamp the country’s immigration laws.

As if to make up for lost time, the freshman senator is now speaking out on foreign policy, education and the consolidation of poverty funding , among a range of other policy proposals he has floated in recent months.

He will lay out an expansive economic platform in a Washington speech hosted by Google and the Jack Kemp Foundation, which includes a wireless agenda of reallocating wireless spectrum currently controlled by the federal government and distributing it to private companies. This would be done through expanded federal auctions, with new incentives for agencies to participate. Sen Rubio says this will spur innovation, keeps wireless costs from rising, prevent dropped calls, and keep networks from becoming overwhelmed from growing Internet traffic.

[March 10]