Posted on 03/28/2023 1:14:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Republicans in Congress have said for decades that they want to abolish the federal Department of Education, which was established in 1979 under President Jimmy Carter (D) and operates now on a $68 billion budget.
When given the opportunity to vote on the issue last week, 161 House Republicans voted to end the department but 60 Republicans voted to keep it, as did 205 House Democrats.
House Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) introduced the bill to end the Department of Education. The legislation simply said, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2023.” Massie had introduced indentical bills in 2017 and 2021.
Massie’s 2023 language was offered as an amendment to the Parents’ Bill of Rights on March 24 in the House.
As the Roll Call vote shows, 161 House Republicans voted yes, in support of the amendment to end the department and 60 GOP members voted no, to not support the proposal. Those 60 Republicans joined with 205 House Democrats to prevent passage of the legislation.
The final vote was 265-161 against ending the department.
Among the Republicans voting with Democrats to keep the Department of Education was Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), who is also the Chair of the House Republican Conference.
Other Republicans who voted to keep the department include Rep. Bryan Steil (Wisc.), Rep. Glenn Thompson (Penn.), Rep. Michael Turner (Ohio), Rep. ann Wagner (Mo.), Rep. Brandon Williams (N.Y.), Rep. Steve Womack (Ark.), Rep. Don Bacon (Neb.), Rep. Stephanie Bice (Okla.), and Rep. John Carter (Tex.). …
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there you have it. many (by no means all) of the GOPe leftists flushed out for all to see. the GOPe is the enemy.
The Constitution does not give the federal government the power to make policy concerning education. Away with it!
Dam shame 60 pubs are so afraid of the teachers union they will squander 68 billion dollars a year on a totally harmful bureaucracy.
“”Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.)””
Disappointment - she’s also on the list of congresscritters who takes $$$ from Bill Gates....
I think all of them should be placed into the transgender sex trade and proceeds used to pay off the national debt.
They’re not afraid of them. They’re on the union’s side.
Yet another classic example of why I have repeatedly said.....there are no more political solutions.
$$$
The department of education has absolutely nothing to do with education. Its just a bank.
There’s easily 60 RINOs that need to be primaried. It’s disgusting how many eff’n socialists are in the GOP.
No surprise with Stefanik. Repeal the 19th.
Unbelievable. Colossal waste of money that only degrades the schools.
They have helped destroy education.
Defunding is not enough. War crimes trials please.
You said it!
Free education for all children in public schools. Abolition of children’s factory labor in its present form. Combination of education with industrial production, etc. etc.We all know that when the commies say “education”, they really mean indoctrination.
— Tenth plank of communism
- Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
- Gain control of all student newspapers.
- Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack. …
- Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of “separation of church and state.” …
— From the 45 communist goals for the USA
- Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the “big picture.” Give more emphasis to Russian history since the communists took over.
- Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture — education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc. …
Funny that word “sinecure”. That’s what happened to Winston Smith when he finally got released from the Ministry of Love; he became a sinecure, whose job consisted of figuring out the proper placement of punctuation marks in Newspeak sentences as part of a team of sinecures.
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