Senate panel votes in favor of Betsy DeVos, Trumps education secretary pick 12-11.

[Fla Dem]

All 12 Repugs voted for Devos, all 11 Dems voted against. May have trouble getting confirmed by whole senate.

A Senate panel on Tuesday narrowly voted in favor of President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos, sending her nomination to the full Senate for final approval.
All 12 Republicans on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted in favor of sending her nomination to the Senate floor, while all 11 Democrats voted against. Democrats immediately challenged the vote, arguing that since one of the Republicans — Sen. Orrin G. Hatch of Utah — voted by proxy, his vote doesn’t count under committee rules, and the outcome was really a 11-11 tie. Republicans refuted that point, and offered to revote with all members present.

Two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), made clear that they have not yet decided how they will vote on the floor, suggesting that DeVos’s confirmation is not yet assured. Democrats are seeking to block DeVos’s confirmation, but they must convince a handful of Republicans to break with the new president.

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Senate Committee on Heath Education Labor and Pensions

Chairman
Senator Lamar Alexander (Republican - TN)

Majority
Senator Michael B. Enzi (Republican - WY)
Senator Richard Burr (Republican - NC)
Senator Johnny Isakson (Republican - GA)
Senator Rand Paul (Republican - KY)
Senator Susan Collins (Republican - ME)
Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (Republican - LA)
Senator Todd Young (Republican - IN)
Senator Orrin Hatch (Republican - UT)
Senator Pat Roberts (Republican - KS)
Senator Lisa Murkowski (Republican - AK)
Senator Tim Scott (Republican - SC)

Minority
Ranking Member
Senator Patty Murray (Democratic - WA)

Senator Bernie Sanders (Independent - VT)
Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr (Democratic - PA)
Senator Al Franken (Democratic - MN)
Senator Michael F. Bennet (Democratic - CO)
Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (Democratic - RI)
Senator Tammy Baldwin (Democratic - WI)
Senator Christopher S. Murphy (Democratic - CT)
Senator Elizabeth Warren (Democratic - MA)
Senator Tim Kaine (Democrat - VA)
Senator Maggie Hassan (Democrat - NH)

[CincyDem]

1. Profiles in Courage...

...Collins and Murkowski. Won't vote against her when it matters but might consider it when if there's enough of a crowd to hide in.

Now that's leadership.

Such sheep.

[Initech]

2. Should have been all 23 against.

I can't believe the republicans would even consider someone as batshit crazy as DeVos, who will tank and loot America's education system, but nothing surprises me anymore.

[underpants]

3. They should have boycotted

[florida08]

4. oh yeah

She's unfit just like her dictator that appointed her

[Pachamama]

5. Fuck you Collins

She could have done the right thing - but didn't....



Hope voters in Maine finally get a Dem in next election to replace her

[Salviati]

7. Yup, all you republican critics of trump, talk is cheap.

Your words mean nothing if they aren't backed up by your votes.

[putitinD]

6. Well, so much for education in the US.

[Blue_true]

8. I call BS on Collins and Murkowski. They had

A chance to kill the nomination in Committee, but they voted to pass DeVos on to a full Senate vote. Why should one expect them to vote differently in the full Senate?

[Dawson Leery]

9. One party control always fails when it is Repubs in charge.

[Angry Dragon]

10. Public education takes another step closer to the slippery slope down

to the bowels of hell

[world wide wally]

11. It would be impossible for one of them to justify their vote except that she is a Republican.

They all stand behind their fearless leader 100% in spite of anything they ever said or will say.
Will they give him a Seig Heil when we walks into a room?