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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...
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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...
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL), the lead Senate sponsor of the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Accountability Act of 2015, issued the following statement regarding the VA reform legislation pending action on the floor:
“We all believe our veterans deserve the utmost respect and highest quality of post-service health care available, but it’s unfortunate the labor unions have so far gotten their way in writing the VA accountability provisions in the Senate’s VA reform bill. The VA ‘reform’ bill as it stands today should not be rammed through Congress without real accountability reforms being added to it. It’s simple: if you work at the VA and work against the interests of our veterans through your negligence, indifference, incompetence or corruption, the VA secretary should be able to fire you. The current VA bill includes too many loopholes that let bad VA employees off the hook, and either we work through it and get it fixed in the coming weeks, or this bill will not be rammed through.”
Last month, Rubio and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chairman Jeff Miller (R-FL) urged the Senate’s lead negotiators on a VA reform package to include the Miller-Rubio accountability proposal into the larger bill. The proposal is broadly supported by several Veterans Service Organizations, including The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW), AMVETS, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA), Paralyzed Veterans of America (PVA), Student Veterans of America (SVA), Military Officers Association of America (MOAA), Vietnam Veterans of America (VVA), Concerned Veterans of America (CVA), and the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH).