Senator Murray from WA is DESTROYING DeVos right now

[LibraLiz1973]

https://www.c-span.org/video/?423459-1/us-senate-advances-devos-nomination&live

[chillfactor]

1. good to hear......

[KewlKat]

2. forgot the hearing was at some weird hour......

[LibraLiz1973]

3. She just said 40 THOUSAND people have shown up at her office

to say fuck no to Betsy.

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5. The nomination advanced 52 yes to 48 no. Does that mean DeVos is the new Ed. Secretary?

I heard last night that it was 51 no to 49 yes.

Is that video from the committee or was that from the whole Senate voting to confirm?

[pinboy3niner]

9. No. The full Senate voted to advance her to a confirmation vote on Monday.

Betsy DeVos clears another hurdle in early morning Senate vote

By Ted Barrett, Sunlen Serfaty and Ashley Killough, CNN
Updated 8:09 AM ET, Fri February 3, 2017


(CNN) — The Senate voted early Friday to advance President Donald Trump's education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos to a final confirmation vote, which is expected Monday.

The vote was 52 to 48 along party lines.

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Despite losing support from Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, she is expected to be confirmed Monday with the help of Vice President Mike Pence, who will be in the chamber to break an expected 50-50 tie.

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http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/betsy-devos-clears-another-hurdle-in-early-morning-senate-vote/

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13. Thanks for the info. So they're going to put the plagiarizer in charge of education.

We are sinking fast.

[world wide wally]

15. Will they still enforce plagiarism laws on students?

They have a good start on rewriting all the laws to accommodate the Trumps.

[brush]

18. How can they enforce plagiarism laws if the Secretary of Ed. is a plagiarist?

Standards just go down the toilet with these repug clowns.

They raged for two hears about emails and Benghazi being so horrible but soon as they get in there's not a peep about either but they force through a plagiarizer to head the department where plagiarism is the biggest no-no.

[Grins]

16. "Does that mean DeVos is the new Ed. Secretary?" Yes, but...

"Does that mean DeVos is the new Ed. Secretary?"

Yes - unless the Senate first confirms Sessions for AG. The second they do that, Sessions is gone and the R's lose one Senate vote. Without Sessions DeVos is dead.

Now, do the Senate D's know that...?

[brush]

17. Rock and a hard place?

[DK504]

22. The Senate is trying all these disgusting tactics to rip us up

Voting at night? It not getting covered??? Where the hell is the media on their late night bullshit?

[JustAnotherGen]

4. It's not available on my handset

Says not available. Anything else?

[Ilsa]

6. Final vote is supposed to be next week, I think. nt

[Nitram]

7. I hate to be a buzz kill, but DeVos is not destroyed unless she loses the confirmation vote.

[Augiedog]

8. She

[NewJeffCT]

10. agreed

and, even if she loses the confirmation vote, she's still a billionaire who donates to RW causes. Not a bad fallback.

[The Sand Reckoner]

21. Exactly...a bit too much hyperbole

How many times during the campaign did someone post "So-and-so just DESTROYED Donald Trump with one tweet!"?

He got "destroyed" at least once a week, and it didn't matter one bit. When will people get it through their heads...VOTES matter far, far more than marches, protests and social media smackdowns.

[bdamomma]

11. who is on that committee???

and doesn't it have to go to Congress after?

[Wheezy]

19. it's to the full senate now, likely Monday is the final vote

So call your senators (or use https://faxzero.com/ if the lines are jammed).

[colsohlibgal]

12. Yuck

She is a contemptible human being with zero compassion for anyone but the gilded set she hangs with. A waste of space and oxygen.

[Afromania]

14. They will put her in

just like they will put all of them in. To ever think otherwise was fallacy. They Republicans play act at civility and reasonable discourse then make the choice to maintain, or enhance their personal power.

[tavernier]

20. Not to worry, I've been corresponding with Marco,

my senator, and I know that he will do the right thing.
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