Marco Rubio

But it still happens far too often.

Is there not something we can do to explain to parents--number one, giving them options not to have to do that.

Since you were named the Haiti special coordinator in 2010, Haiti has begun to recover from that catastrophic earthquake.

Earlier this year, Senator Shaheen and I authored the Girls Count Act, which directs current U.S. foreign aid to assist with providing birth certificates in developing countries.

Just last month, ProPublica's investigation revealed that the Red Cross built exactly six homes in Haiti with nearly $0.5 billion.

I believe Haiti is of vital interest to Florida, to the United States, and to the entire Western Hemisphere.

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Marco Rubio's comments are not just offensive and inaccurate, but also divisive.

As a matter of fact, VA has a history of rewarding mediocrity and failure.

What happens when VA fails to properly manage its massive and growing budget? It just gets rewarded with more money.

For a long time, mediocrity and failure has been rewarded at VA, and it, in many ways goes back to Congress, as well.

If we keep rewarding failure--if we keep just spending another $3 billion here and $3 billion there--we can only expect more failure.

This is a clear image of what rewarding mediocrity and failure looks like at the Departmental level--failure that cascades down from the leadership to the frontline employee, and ultimately, to the underserved veteran.

Thank you for holding this hearing today.

The bill is S. 1082, the Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability Act of 2015, introduced by Senator Marco Rubio.

We believe this bill is badly needed--and critical to VA's recovery--because so much of what ills VA stems from a dysfunctional and bureaucratic culture that has infected the organization at all levels.

We believe S. 1082 is critical to overhauling a dysfunctional and bureaucratic culture that has infected VA at all levels.

This common sense bill--S. 1082--simply expands the Secretary's authority to swiftly remove poor employees, regardless of their rank in the organization.

Last year's Phoenix wait time scandal showed us that there is a severe lack of accountability for VA officials.

The VA Office of Inspector General conduct made it clear that Congress must act.

That is why I have introduced the Ensuring Veteran Safety Through Accountability Act.

As soon as I became aware of the problems at Tomah, I directed committee staff to open an investigation into the problems of the facility.

On June 4, I was not present to vote on Senator Jeanne Shaheen's amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2016, amendment No. 1494 to H.R. 1735. I would have voted against this measure. Madam President, as well, had I…

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I believe that someday China will be free. Someday, the people of China will be able to enjoy all of their God-given rights.