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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, a 2016 candidate, argued on the Senate floor Tuesday that the government should be able to fire Department of Veterans Affairs VA workers who don t do their jobs. However, the senator has faced questions about his own attendance record at work. All we re saying in this bill is if you work at the VA and you aren t doing your job, they get to fire you. I think people are shocked that that [doesn t] actually exist in the entire government, since there is really no other job in the country where if you don t do your job, you don stanley mugs t get fired, Rubio said. But in this instance we re just limiting to one agency. This should actually be the rule in the entire government. If you re not doing your job, you should be fired. But this is limiting to the VA because we ve got a crisis there with the lack of accountability. Rubio was pushing for a vote on his legislation that would further reform employment at the scandal-plagued agency by allowing any employ stanley cup ee to be demoted or fi stanley cup red based on performance. A VA reform bill that passed last year gave the secretary of the agency the authority to fire senior managers based on performance. The legislation was passed after revelations about longstanding problems within the VA hospital system. Cleaning up the VA 13:18 The long delays for Optv Bidens host 2024 Easter egg roll at White House
Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards said Wednesday that conservative author Ann Coulter s attacks stanley cups uk are personally hurtful and it s important that he respond to them.While Edwards made his first comments to The Associated Press in response to Coulter s suggestion that she wished he would be killed in a terrorist assassination plot, his campaign was also using her remarks to bring in donations in the final week before his next fundraising deadline.It s not the first time Coulter has given the Edwards campaign a financial boost. In March, she called Edwards a faggot and the campaign used video of the comment to help raise $300,000 before the end of the first quarter. The campaign has sent t stanley tumbler wo e-mails to supporters this week, asking them to send donations to defy her attacks and help Edwards ndash; a former North Carolina senator mdash; meet his goal of raising $9 million in the second quarter ending Saturday. The first e-mail from campaign adviser Joe Trippi showed a clip of Coulter on ABC stanley mug s Good Morning America, where she said Monday that she wished Edwards would be killed by terrorists. We had an obligation to speak out against this change in our political dialogue, Elizabeth Edwards said on CBS News The Early Show on Thursday. It didn t used to be all right for people to call namesmdash;to say these hateful kind of things. We ve allowed it to happen. When Coulter appeared Tuesday on MSNBC s Hardball, Eliza |
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