Pregnant students are sometimes discriminated against by their schools, either intentionally or unintentionally and there is a concerning lack of awareness about the resources and rights available to them. Due to a lack of services and discrimination, these women may...
Currently, intelligence community civilians are subject to certain tax penalties for job-related relocation requirements, but active-duty military servicemembers are not subjected to the same penalties. These tax benefits, including the ability to deduct moving...
Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Marco Rubio (R-FL) delivered opening remarks and questioned witnesses at a hearing on countering China’s influence in the United States. Watch Rubio’s opening remarks here as well as Part I and Part II of...
Approximately 302,000 Americans live with spinal cord injuries. To help these people achieve a better quality of life, there is a need to increase education and invest in research. U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) successfully led a bipartisan...
Foreign investment is one of the legal means that adversaries, like China, can use to collect Americans’ data, exasperating both privacy and national security risks. To counter this, U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) reintroduced the...
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) joined Special Report with Bret Baier to discuss the impending government shutdown, the possibility of a Saudi-Israeli normalization deal, and the indictment of Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ). See below for highlights and watch the full...
Senator Rubio is a cosponsor of S.19, a bill titled the American Liberty Restoration Act. This bill aims to restore the liberty of all Americans by striking the newly passed mandate requiring that private citizens purchase health insurance. Senator Rubio believes that ObamaCare will have disastrous consequences on our economy by raising taxes on individuals and small businesses. As he recently wrote in the Orlando Sentinel, “For millions of Americans, including job creators, Obama’s political win is now an IRS problem for them in the real world.” Senator Rubio’s cosponsorship of this bill is a big step toward striking down the individual mandate and repealing ObamaCare.
Senator Rubio is the sponsor of S.RES.521, a resolution designating September 2012 as National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. Millions around the world are living with traumatic spinal cord injuries as well as the knowledge that there is currently no cure for their debilitating condition. Every 48 minutes someone is paralyzed due to a spinal cord injury. This is the second consecutive year that Senator Rubio has worked to promote awareness of this serious issue by designating September as Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month. Senator Rubio’s intent is to promote conversation about the devastation of paralysis and to bring spinal cord injury to the forefront of public awareness.
Senator Rubio is an original cosponsor of S.3380, a bill to provide for the issuance of a Victory for Veterans stamp, and for other purposes. This bill, which is modeled on the successful Victory Stamp drive of World War II, will create a special stamp known as a semipostal that will raise funds for employment and training programs for veterans. Senator Rubio believes that this bill, which allows the public to give back to those who have served our nation, will honor the more than 20 million veterans currently living in the United States.
Senator Rubio is an original cosponsor of S.AMDT.2547, an amendment to ObamaCare that would allow individuals to use a Flexible Savings Account (FSA) or Health Savings Account (HSA) to purchase over the counter medications without a prescription, a practice that is currently prohibited under this harmful and restrictive legislation. Approximately 10 million Americans have HSAs and 35 million have FSAs to help reduce personal health care costs and provide greater flexibility in important health care decisions. Unfortunately, these accounts cannot be used for certain basic pharmaceutical needs due to President Obama’s overreaching health care law. This amendment is a step toward removing the harmful effects of ObamaCare and restoring the rights of individuals and families to make their own health care decisions.
Senator Rubio is a cosponsor of S.AMDT.2491, an amendment on the Small Business Jobs and Tax Relief Act. This amendment would preserve the current tax policy through the end of 2013, during which time the Senate Finance Committee would undertake comprehensive tax reform. Senator Rubio believes that we must protect our nation’s small businesses from crushing tax increases that threaten their ability to grow and create jobs. The last thing our economy needs is to burden the millions of small businesses that currently stand on the front lines of job creation and economic recovery.