Rubio Introduces VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act

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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., introduced legislation on Tuesday aimed at allowing the Department of Veterans Affairs to make faster decisions to fire or demote corrupt or negligent officials.

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Rubio's VA Accountability First and Appeals Modernization Act aims to fix that problem. Its most dramatic change is a 77-day cap on the length of time it can take to finally demote or remove a VA official.

Rubio proposed similar legislation last year, when he said that change is one of many that must be made in order to bring accountability to the "broken and incompetent" VA.

"To make real progress in fixing the VA, we need to tackle the first problem plaguing the VA, which is the lack of accountability among employees," he said. "It is simply unacceptable that it can take years to fire one employee for poor management or misconduct."

The bill would also let the VA recoup bonuses, relocation expenses and pensions of senior officials who are convicted of felonies that affected their job performance. Critics of the VA have said the department continues to pay out huge bonuses and other awards, even to officials involved in the healthcare wait-time scandal.

Elsewhere, it would eliminate all VA bonuses for five years, and reform the process employees now have to appeal decisions to the Merit Systems Protection Board, which has been accused of being too willing to defend VA workers.

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Good for Marco doing the best he can to reform this broken system. At this point we may need to burn the VA to the ground and just give veterans vouchers for all medical care. The scum that work at the VA are all complicit in this. Marco again is spearheading change.