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simpleton, you mother ers have no counter, no refutation, defense of the bags your Repugs have nominated each to weaken, destroy the depts.
Only pick that might not go through is the DeVos lady and I wouldn't put money on her not getting in.
simpleton, you mother ers have no counter, no refutation, defense of the bags your Repugs have nominated each to weaken, destroy the depts.
Not even trying stick. I dont have an RSS feed telling me what to think.
lol facile coward.
How come, Mitch?
Damn, Bouts, you've gotten mean. You had the con for 8 years. Be thankful for that.
you shootin blanks, kicker
She's getting a lot of from democrats, I don't see her having the universal republican appeal like Rex and Mattis would have either. I say she has a 90% chance to get in, but if the dip blues stop anybody it'll be her.
Youre posting blanks poodle.you shootin blanks, kicker
y DeVos says
WE NEED GUNS IN SCHOLS!!! paranoia
... BECAUSE OF GRIZZLY BEARS!
My RSS oracle tells me everything!
Do you know who her brother is?
Nice quadruple negative.
You think Tillerson is a slam dunk? Rubio doesn't like him and has to keep an anti-Russia stance to not piss off all the Cuban refugees who make up his base. If Rubio and one other senator says no he's not getting confirmation.
No, who is it, Splits?
It's unlikely that the confirmations will strictly follow partisan lines, tbh. I see more democratics voting aye than republicans voting nay
Six astonishing things Betsy DeVos said — and refused to say — at her confirmation hearing
Here are some of the notable moments:
- DeVos refused to agree with a Democrat that schools are no place for guns, citing one school that needs one to protect against grizzly bears. (She really said this.)
- DeVos seemed to have no understanding of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, known as IDEA, which requires public schools to provide free and appropriate education to all students with disabilities.
- DeVos refused to agree with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) that all schools that receive public federal funds — traditional public, public charter or private schools that receive voucher money — should be held to the same standards of accountability.
- DeVos said she would review gainful employment regulations without committing to enforce them.
- DeVos appeared to have no idea what Franken was talking about when he referred to the accountability debate about whether to use test scores to measure student proficiency or student growth.
- And here’s a bonus:
DeVos said her name should not have been included on tax forms for her mother’s foundation, which has contributed to controversial causes.
The forms say that she was vice president and a member of the board.
“That was a clerical error,” DeVos said. “I have never made decisions on my mother’s behalf.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...t-draw7&wpmm=1
Being born wealth and privileged means "Never Having To Say Anything Intelligent" -- paraphrase Love Story
Betsy DeVos outpaces Ben Carson as Trump's least prepared nominee
If you followed the confirmation hearing for Betsy DeVos, Donald Trump’s education secretary pick, you are no longer in any doubt
why Republicans tried to bury the hearing in the evening and keep it short
Sen. Maggie Hassan drew a blazingly clear connection between DeVos’ beloved privatization programs and the IDEA:
We do know that children with disabilities in at least some of the voucher programs that you have supported have gone with a voucher to a school, because of their disability had to leave the school.
The school keeps the money, and they go back to public schools that now have even less resources to deal with them.
And many of us see this as the potential for turning our public schools into warehouses for the most challenging kids with disabilities or other kinds of particular issues.
Or the kids whose parents can’t afford to make up the difference between the voucher and the cost of private school tuition.
That is the DeVos plan in a nuts , though DeVos had been too well coached for this hearing to say it directly.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Foreclosure victim blasts Trump’s pick for Treasury: ‘They lied to us and took our home’
Lisa Fraser, who tells the story of how OneWest foreclosed on her and her late husband, despite the fact that they never had one late payment.
“We had lived in our house for years when John got sick with cancer,” she explains in the video. “Then the bank foreclosed on us. We did everything the bank asked. They lied to us and took our home anyway – after years of on-time payments.”
She said the bank’s foreclosure created tremendous stress for her husband in his final years, as he worried constantly about his wife’s future.
“John spent his last days terrified I’d be homeless, and then they kicked me out right after the funeral,” she said. “Steve Mnuchin ran the bank that committed fraud and took our home.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/fore...e+Raw+Story%29
JL is on her payroll
Joe Lieberman disses the entire education establishment at Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing
And then, he said:
“I know that some people are questioning her qualifications to be secretary of education, and too many of those questions seem to me to be based on the fact that
she doesn’t come from within the education establishment.
But honestly I believe that today,
that’s one of the most important qualifications you could have for this job.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2017/01/17/joe-lieberman-disses-the-entire-education-establishment-at-betsy-devoss-confirmation-hearing/?utm_term=.ffff8981d9b5
Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump’s secretary of commerce nominee, has offshored 2,700 jobs since 2004
http://www.salon.com/2017/01/17/wilb...bs-since-2004/
DeVos says it’s ‘premature’ to commit to following le IX guidance on campus sexual assault
On Tuesday night, sexual assault survivors flooded Capitol Hill to observe Education Secretary-designate Betsy DeVos’ confirmation hearing.
The guidance, which expanded gender discrimination protections on campus to sexual assault and sexual violence survivors, requires every school to have an established internal procedure to handle allegations of sexual harassment and sexual violence. It also says that every time a complaint is filed the school must promptly investigate it, independent of whether or not the crime is reported to the police
DeVos said that she was aware of many “conflicting ideas and opinions around that guidance.”
DeVos has a do ented history of donating money to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), a group that has opposed legislation aimed at preventing campus sexual assault and even provides legal counsel to students under investigation for sexual assault.
https://thinkprogress.org/devos-says...aa5#.a2hbnnvft
And all y'all pussy grabbers and rapists are cheering DeVos!
Rex Tillerson’s Exxon Mobil Frequently Sought State Department Assistance, New Do ents Show
EXXON MOBIL UNDER ITS CEO Rex Tillerson frequently pressed the U.S. State Department for help in negotiating complex business deals and overcoming foreign opposition to its drilling projects,
The requests for help — do ented in diplomatic cables obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request from DeSmogBlog as well as some previously released by Wikileaks — raise a whole new series of conflict-of-interest concerns about Tillerson,
Exxon Mobil sent State Department officials a request to help overcome local opposition to fracking in Germany;
in Indonesia, the State Department acted as a advocate for Exxon Mobil during contentious negotiations between the firm and the Indonesian government over a major gas field in the South China Sea;
and in Russia, Exxon Mobil asked the U.S. ambassador to press the Russians to approve a major drilling program, noting that a “warming of U.S.-Russian relations” overall would also help the company.
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/...te-department/
Endangered Species Act is now an endangered species as Republicans plan its extinction
In control of Congress and soon the White House, Republicans are readying plans to roll back the influence of the Endangered Species Act, one of the government's most powerful conservation tools, after decades of complaints that it hinders drilling, logging and other activities. ...
"Any species that gets in the way of a congressional initiative or some kind of development will be clearly at risk," said Jamie Rappaport Clark, president of Defenders of Wildlife and a former Fish and Wildlife Service director under President Bill Clinton. "The political lineup is as unfavorable to the Endangered Species Act as I can remember."
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/0...28Daily+Kos%29
Trump’s Interior Pick Wants to Save Our Public Lands by Drilling On Them
Ryan Zinke, Donald Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Interior, is planning to drill on public lands, set aside largely for outdoor recreation and conservation purposes.
During his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, the former Navy SEAL commander and sole representative from Montana in the House of Representatives, talked about both his strong support of public lands, and the drilling and mining he wants to do on them.
He is widely seen to be Trump’s vehicle to carry out an aggressive domestic fossil fuel strategy.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/tru...illing-on-them
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