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Senate narrowly confirms Betsy DeVos as education secretary
MSN News ^ | February 07, 2017 | Emma Brown

Posted on 02/07/2017 10:35:38 AM PST by detective

The Senate narrowly confirmed Betsy DeVos as education secretary on Tuesday, with Vice President Pence casting a historic tiebreaking vote after senators deadlocked over her fitness for the job.

The entire Democratic caucus of 48 senators voted against DeVos, as did two Republicans, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, who said they did not think that DeVos was qualified for the job. The remaining 50 Republicans voted for DeVos, setting up a 50-50 tie that Pence broke with his vote at about 12:30 p.m.

It marked the first time that a vice president’s tiebreaking vote was needed to confirm a Cabinet secretary, according to Daniel Holt, an assistant historian in the Senate Historical Office.

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To: detective

Approved is approved. The End!!


21 posted on 02/07/2017 10:57:19 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: JBW1949

They did not think DeVos was qualified for the job because she is pro school choice, school vouchers and she is against common core, teacher union thugs and failing schools.

They would hate anyone that Trump picked. The school union and lobbyists are very powerful.


22 posted on 02/07/2017 10:58:22 AM PST by slipper (It is almost too late;)
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To: loveliberty2
In 2010, Barack Obama called for fixing the public education system by giving us the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and “Race to the Top,”

which he said would fix the education system already fixed by the 2001 GW Bush and Ted Kennedy legislation called “No Child Left Behind,”

which was supposed to fix a system supposedly already fixed by a 1994 piece of federal legislation called “Goals 2000,”

which was supposed to fix a system already fixed by “America 2000,”

which was a 1991 response during the Bush administration to a 1983 federal report on education called “A Nation at Risk,

which was published a full four years after Jimmy Carter first fixed the nation’s public school system by establishing a cabinet-level Department of Education in 1979.

23 posted on 02/07/2017 10:58:25 AM PST by Maceman (Let's ban Muslims temporarily -- just until non-Muslims can freely practice their religions in Mecca)
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To: detective

Our forefathers knew....that someday it would be necessary to break a tie....no big deal.


24 posted on 02/07/2017 10:58:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: detective

If we can keep it to two RINO defections, we’re OK.


25 posted on 02/07/2017 11:01:25 AM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Uncle Sam 911

Yes. Her power still the same


26 posted on 02/07/2017 11:01:32 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: slipper

I don’t think qualification question had a lot to do with it...That was their excuse...

You hit on the head though, that ANYONE (no matter qualifications) that Trump nominated, would be hated and given such a hard time...


27 posted on 02/07/2017 11:03:17 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: detective

The NEA is literally shitting bricks as I type.

Time to break the back of the indoctrination/meritocracy cartel.


28 posted on 02/07/2017 11:04:08 AM PST by factoryrat (We reserve the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it.)
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To: editor-surveyor

Several of my wife’s friends on facebook who are “teachers” are having complete meltdowns. I want so bad to ask them why they despise me as a parent having a choice where to educate my kids and the next question I want to ask a couple of them is if you are so great and your school is so wonderful at educating our kids why are you sending yours to private schools?


29 posted on 02/07/2017 11:05:23 AM PST by sarge83
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To: detective

What do they call a student who graduates LAST in Medical School?

Doctor.

A win is a win.

This will free up Sessions to start draining the swamp at Justice.


30 posted on 02/07/2017 11:05:52 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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To: slipper

They did not think DeVos was qualified for the job because she is pro school choice, school vouchers and she is against common core, teacher union thugs and failing schools.


Yup


31 posted on 02/07/2017 11:06:23 AM PST by samtheman (Trump won bigly. Trump governs bigly. His critics don't get bigly.)
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To: bestrongbpositive

I like that!


32 posted on 02/07/2017 11:07:09 AM PST by Dapper 26
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To: detective
It marked the first time that a vice president’s tiebreaking vote was needed

That's not because DeVos was controversial. Its because the Dems have become completely unhinged.

33 posted on 02/07/2017 11:07:38 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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To: Sacajaweau

Can someone give me a quote on today’s riot rates?


34 posted on 02/07/2017 11:08:08 AM PST by gasport (One citizen - One vote)
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To: Sacajaweau
Approved is approved. The End!!

Exactly! How do you address Ms. DeVos, who squeaked by on a tie-breaking vote by the Vice President?

"Madame Secretary."

35 posted on 02/07/2017 11:09:30 AM PST by henkster
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To: Uncle Sam 911
It's a win, but she and the Trump admin had better be ready to clean house if they want to move a worthwhile agenda forward. That agency, the Democrats and the media will be on her 24x7.
36 posted on 02/07/2017 11:09:43 AM PST by Major Matt Mason (Those that can, do, those that can't, work in the Beltway.)
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To: Tac Double Tap
So these two think the most corrupt agency in the US government is performing with qualified personal.
Maybe they should watch Watters World.

There have been lots of street interviews by late-night talk shows before Watters World that show the stupidity of the general populace in cities. Yes, education has failed many people. No grasp of civics and U.S. history or geographical facts. None whatsoever. They think New Mexico is a foreign country. Can't place most countries on a globe of Earth, including the U.S.A. And many of these people went on to college!

37 posted on 02/07/2017 11:10:28 AM PST by roadcat
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To: detective

I ain’t no ways tired yet.(said with a thick faux accent)


38 posted on 02/07/2017 11:11:28 AM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: detective
This reminds me of the time that Senator Bob Kerrey (Medal of Honor winner) spoke on the floor of the Senate before casting his vote on Clinton's Tax Increase. He said that the Tax Bill was bad for the economy and bad for the American people, but he would not give his vote to the other side (Republicans) to bring down HIS president! That vote set up the 50-50 tie that Vice President Bore broke with his vote.

So the noble Senator Kerrey placed his political allegiance before the good of the American people!
39 posted on 02/07/2017 11:12:15 AM PST by leprechaun9
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To: detective

Henry Payne has a good cartoon on the teachers’ union role in this vote...included in today’s collection of Pookie’s toons.


40 posted on 02/07/2017 11:14:43 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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