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A successful businessman, Cain was president and CEO of Godfather’s Pizza and the National Restaurant Association. He ran for the U.S. Senate in Georgia during the 2004 election cycle, finishing second in the Republican primary. In 2011, he launched a bid for the Republican presidential nomination, pushing his “9-9-9“ tax plan.

The senators paired up again this week to press U.S. Energy Sec. Rick Perry--briefly a rival to Rubio in the 2016 Republican presidential primaries--on the matter, as the Energy Department grows increasingly open to helping Saudi Arabia’s nuclear ambitions.