Burr stepped aside last week after the FBI seized his cell phone.
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has been named as the acting Senate intelligence committee chairman to replace Sen. Richard Burr (R-N. C.), the embattled lawmaker who is currently under federal investigation for alleged insider trading.
Burr was first elected to his Senate position in 2004, succeeding Democrat and former vice presidential nominee John Edwards.
He had served as the head of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence since 2015, with the committee tasked to “oversee and make continuing studies of the intelligence activities and programs of the United States Government.
