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The Associated Press‏ @AP

BREAKING: Senate committee approves DeVos for education secretary, sends nomination to full Senate


Ed O'Keefe‏ @edatpost
As of noon: Rick Perry (Energy), Ryan Zinke (Interior), Betsy DeVos (Education) referred to full Senate for confirmation votes.

 

[mjc]

A person barely qualified to watch water boil is now the boss of our educators.

Fantastic.

 

[Zen Aku]

DeVos passed? fuck this shit.

 

[WhiskerFrisker]

DeVos was actually nominated? Is there something I'm missing? She doesn't belong there at all. That's fishy as hell.

 

[RCSI]

The fuckery begins.

 

[Pandora012]

Them bears better watch out with DeVos in charge.

 

[br3wnor]

DeVos was actually nominated? Is there something I'm missing? She doesn't belong there at all.

Republicans are the majority and Reid went nuclear in 2013 so appointments only need 51 votes.

 

[Iksenpets]

Should've pulled the boycott move on at least DeVos

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

DeVos looks like still may be in committee. Procedure rules were broken in her vote.

 

[LiquidSword]

Half the cabinet picks are totally unqualified and the other half are a "fox in the henhouse" situation. They will all be confirmed. This is a nightmare.

 

[QuantumBro]

This is just approving them for a Senate vote, right? They haven't been confirmed yet.

 

[Steejee]

DeVos was actually nominated? Is there something I'm missing? She doesn't belong there at all. That's fishy as hell.

Dems can't actually stop any of the nominations, only delay.

Someone in the GOP has to put country before party to stop any of these, and it doesn't look like that is going to happen.

 

[Tahnit]

Dems have said they are gonna boycott all of his cabinet members. Let's hope that they follow through.

 

[WeAreStarStuff]

This is just approving them for a Senate vote, right? They haven't been confirmed yet.

They will be though....

 

[Dubbedinenglish]

From PoliGAF

Don't really know what this means, so I'm posting it here for clarification.

https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/826475184580333573
In response to the headline "BREAKING: Betsy DeVos CONFIRMED in Committee Along Party Lines":

@ChrisMurphyCT
Nope. Not yet. Vote was contrary to committee rules. Dems objected and now we are debating how to proceed.

 

[PandaPandaPanda]

They're all going to go through because our government is a fucking joke.

So much for a system of "checks and balances"

 

[MisterShine]

Ed O'Keefe‏ @edatpost
As of noon: Rick Perry (Energy), Ryan Zinke (Interior), Betsy DeVos (Education) referred to full Senate for confirmation votes.

I don't know Zinke, but these two are a genuine embarrassment to this country. As a public school teacher & someone who wants the DoE to not, ya know, be dissolved... this is just tough to swallow.

Trump is turning me more and more to a libertarian. If these fools can be chosen to run the departments it would be better if they didn't exist.

 

[TheNefariousGamer]

From PoliGAF

And then the excellent clarification

Dems objecting to the use of a vote by proxy for Hatch which seems to factually make the vote 11-11 by the rules of committee, but Chairman arguing the objection is invalid unless it was done literally immediately after Hatch's proxy vote. Murray objected immediately after the full vote was complete.

 

[Steejee]

Half the cabinet picks are totally unqualified and the other half are a "fox in the henhouse" situation. They will all be confirmed. This is a nightmare.

At this point I'm just hoping most of these really awful ones are limited in their ability to fuck things up just through their own sheer incompetence.

 

[j-wood]

Did anyone just watch that vote? WHAT THE FUCK.

Please someone explain to me the fuckery that just happened on the Devos vote.

 

[Iksenpets]

This is just approving them for a Senate vote, right? They haven't been confirmed yet.

Need to see what Rs are on the approving committee who voted yes, and of that leaves at least three in the full Senate who could potentially flip.

 

[manakel]

Did anyone just watch that vote? WHAT THE FUCK.

Please someone explain to me the fuckery that just happened on the Devos vote.

I love how the Alaska senator went on and on about how she's weary of her qualifications just to then vote aye. Such a complete and utter joke.

 

[LiK]

What a fucking joke.

 

[j-wood]

Fuck senator alexander. That was absolute bullshit by him. Holy shit.

 

[Nerazar]

As long as DeVos is not approved, I'm happy. She will throw back the education of millions and millions of children.

And she will mishandle the student loan system, because she has to get her investments back.

 

[Jarmel]

Fuck every single Republican on that education committee.

They can go straight to hell.

 

[Mailbox]

Devos got through?
fucking shit cowardly shitty fucking bullshit!

 

[Xe4]

Does anyone know the D/R ratio on the nominating committee? If DeVos passed solely on party lines, that suggests there's more republicans there.

 

[br3wnor]

Does anyone know the D/R ratio on the nominating committee? If DeVos passed solely on party lines, that suggests there's more republicans there.

My understanding was 12R/11D but I saw it scrolling through Twitter so can't give a source. The tweet said "Along party lines"

 

[manakel]

Does anyone know the D/R ratio on the nominating committee? If DeVos passed solely on party lines, that suggests there's more republicans there.

The vote was 12-11 with every democrat voting no, and every republican voting yes. Senator Alexander voted by proxy for the republican senator that was missing.

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

Our kids are going to suffer so badly. She's going to turn schools into discriminatory businesses with a not-give-a-shit attitude about guns in school. We're so fucked. We're so fucked.

 

[Balphon]

Does anyone know the D/R ratio on the nominating committee? If DeVos passed solely on party lines, that suggests there's more republicans there.

There are more Republicans on every committee, they are the majority.

 

[Rebel Leader]

How the fuck did they get passed? Fucking republicans.

 

[j-wood]

Alexander was a piece of shit.

He over ruled debate, and allowed a proxy vote despite objections. Tennessee, get that fucking person out of the senate.

 

[Fenderputty]

Can you all not feel Gods kingdom surround you as this is happening?

 

[Caja 117]

of course, lack of education is what put Republicans in power, this shouldn't be a surprise.

 

[xxracerxx]

Disgusted DeVos passed, disgusted.

 

[Rebel Leader]

Can you all not feel Gods kingdom surround you as this is happening?

God giving constitution is against that

 

[Calm Killer]

Devos passed down party lines 12-11. Still needs to pass full Senate.

 

[Metroidvania]

Devos passed down party lines 12-11. Still needs to pass full Senate.

Unfortunately, if the precedent is there on the nomination comittee, going off of all previous precedent, I don't see any R's making waves at this point.

Hoping to be wrong, though.

 

[zethren]

A person barely qualified to watch water boil is now the boss of our educators.

Fantastic.

A person barely qualified to watch water boil is now our President. The man is barely qualified to walk down stairs by himself. President.

People have lost their goddamn minds.

 

[bgbball31]

I am watching CSPAN right now over this stuff. Freaking CSPAN. And not even the first one, but the second one! And now even the third because they are, I think, voting on Sessions in the judiciary committee right now.

Really hoping Devos is not passed in the full senate. Sessions is more worrying because he will have a more important roll, but at least he is qualified should be put in.

 

[Outdoor Miner]

I am going to fucking LIVID if DeVos becomes our next Secretary of Education. Its time to fucking rage.

 

[Whompa02]

isn't it going on right now? wtf? Oh, senate.

 

[Netherscourge]

Betsy DeVos literally bought her way to a nomination.

-Donate big money to Trump's campaign.
-Get a cabinet position.

Total fucking joke.

 

[alternade]

This country is going to shit so fast its dizzying. How could these wholly unqualified and ideologically bankrupt people be confirmed much less nominated?

 

[Rebel Leader]

Betsy DeVos literally bought her way to a nomination.

-Donate big money to Trump's campaign.
-Get a cabinet position.

Total fucking joke.

Pay to play folks. It's pay to play - trump

This country is going to shit so fast its dizzying. How could these wholly unqualified and ideologically bankrupt people be confirmed much less nominated?

They had republican next to their name?

 

[Escargo]

Didn't DeVos get railed during her questioning? How did she still get approved?

 

[Plinko]

Didn't DeVos get railed during her questioning? How did she still get approved?

Republicans don't care about facts. Period.

 

[jack_package_200]

Didn't DeVos get railed during her questioning? How did she still get approved?

Republicans have no spine.