A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recently determined that phenylephrine, an ingredient commonly used to treat sinus and nasal congestion, is ineffective in treating these symptoms. This was apparent from research for years, yet large...
El senador estadounidense Marco Rubio (R-FL) habló con César Grajales de La Poderosa 670 AM en El Panorama Político, sobre la crisis fronteriza, sobre cómo los hispanoamericanos se ven afectados con la realidad del país, sobre los cargos contra el senador Bob Menéndez...
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...
Marco Rubio, Florida’s new U.S. senator, has drawn a line in the sand on raising the national debt. His colleagues on Capitol Hill should join him in holding that line against the same old “we’ll deal with it next year” promises that have allowed the national debt to grow into a mountain of IOUs.
Rubio has become an outspoken opponent of Congress raising the federal debt limit without first agreeing to a sweeping plan to reduce the $14.2 trillion national debt. The debt limit now stands at $14.29 trillion. With the federal government piling up debt at the appalling rate of $4 billion a day, the debt ceiling will be breached within the next few weeks. If Congress doesn’t agree to raise the ceiling soon, the government will lose the ability to issue debt.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke says that if the government can’t continue to issue debt, the consequences will be “catastrophic.” Rubio believes it may take the prospect of an immediate economic catastrophe to concentrate the minds of congressional leaders on the greater catastrophe awaiting the country down the road.
In a recent column for The Wall Street Journal, Rubio wrote that when Barack Obama voted as a senator in 2006 against raising the debt ceiling, he called raising the limit “a sign of leadership failure.” The debt limit then was under $9 billion.
…