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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed school choice advocate Betsy DeVos as Education secretary by the narrowest of margins, with Vice President Mike Pence breaking a 50-50 tie in a historic vote. DeVos, became the first cabinet member in history to need the President of the Senate , to cast the deciding vote.
Congress' government oversight leader and the chief crusader for civil service reforms met with President Trump Tuesday with plans to bring up his ideas for change. Trump himself called the meeting, Chaffetz told reporters Tuesday morning, adding he was "not sure" why it was happening.
Democrats said she had no experience as an educator, administrator or even as a parent or student in public schools. Betsy DeVos confirmed Education secretary; Pence casts deciding vote Democrats said she had no experience as an educator, administrator or even as a parent or student in public schools.
John McCain has long prided himself on his reputation as a maverick, a Republican willing to buck his party's leaders. Now he faces what may be the biggest maverick moment of his career - and he sounds like a man who's ready for a fight.
Rubio now has a sterling 100 percent voting record backing all of President Trump's nominees and plans , according to FiveThirtyEight's Trump tracker. He did his latest solid for the Don today by voting to confirm Betsy DeVos as secretary of education over protests from basically every public school teacher in the nation.
Then-Vice President-elect Gov. Mike Pence appeared on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2016 INDIANAPOLIS - An Indianapolis lawyer is asking the Indiana Supreme Court to order the release of emails sent to Vice President Mike Pence when he was governor. William Groth's appeal asks for access to emails sent to Pence in 2014 in which a staffer for Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott outlined a legal strategy for challenging then-President Barack Obama's executive order on immigration.
President Donald Trump regularly poses for publicity shots of him signing executive orders with members of his team in tableau behind him. He's promoting a kind of Oval Office reality show for which he's assembled a cast of colorful misfits.
Through years of acrimony over Obamacare coverage for the poor and other individuals lacking health policies, one kind of insurance has remained steady, widespread and relatively affordable. Employer-sponsored medical plans still cover more Americans than any other type, typically with greater benefits and lower out-of-pocket expense.
They're different in many ways, but President Donald Trump says he has earned the respect of his predecessor, Barack Obama. "It's a very strange phenomenon," Trump said on "The O'Reilly Factor" Monday night.
Buoyed by President Donald Trump's pledge to rebuild the U.S. armed forces, senior Pentagon officials have delivered to Congress plans for increasing the defense budget by more than $30 billion to acquire new jet fighters, armored vehicles, improved training and more. The informal proposals, obtained by The Associated Press, represent the first attempt by Trump's Defense Department to halt an erosion of the military's readiness for combat.
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London, Feb 7 - House of Commons Speaker John Bercow has got embroiled in a controversy after insisting US President Donald Trump should not be allowed to address the lower house of parliament during his state visit. Bercow's extraordinary attack on late Monday reignited controversy over the invitation to Trump, provoking applause from MPs who oppose the US President, and drawing accusations that the Speaker was insulting Britian's closest ally, the Daily Mail reported on Tuesday.
The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, talks with constituents from Utah during a reception in the Oversight Committee Room in the Rayburn House Office Building Thursday January 19, 2017. The Salt Lake Tribune) Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, talks with constituents from Utah during a reception in the Oversight Committee Room in the Rayburn House Office Building Thursday January 19, 2017.
A trade association will soon adorn gas pumps across Indiana with ads opposing a Republican plan to use higher fuel taxes to pay for infrastructure repairs, a tricky sell in a conservative state much more accustomed to cutting taxes than raising them.
Once more, the Congressional Budget Office has warned that federal deficits will continue to rise until current laws are changed. But so far, President Donald Trump shows no signs of making the deficit a priority or of undertaking the hard bipartisan work that will be required to make the necessary changes.
Republican Sen. Rand Paul, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and potentially the deciding vote, will announce Tuesday his opposition to the possible picking of Elliot Abrams for deputy secretary of state, according to a senior aide close to the Kentucky senator. Paul's disapproval could set up a rocky confirmation process for the No.
In Illinois, Lincoln's essential premise of "government of the people, by the people and for the people" has been corrupted into "government of the casinos, by the casinos, and for the casinos"-as exemplified by the new casino legislation in Senate Bill 7. In 2015, U.S. Congressional hearings highlighted that much of the Illinois bankruptcy was precipitated by $35 billion to $100 billion in giveaways since 1990 to gambling interests - diverting funds particularly away from essential education funding. For example, the original 10 Illinois casino licenses worth $5 billion were given away for only $25,000 each to political insiders, including one insider who thereafter went to prison.
Democrats are mounting a 24-hour blitz to try and sink at least one nomination from President Donald Trump's Cabinet, attacking education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos a day before her confirmation vote. Democratic senators promised to stay up all night debating DeVos early into Tuesday morning and also took to Twitter to urge residents to light up Senate phonelines.
The Kansas State Fair's budget is fueled by fee revenues, but it requested $6.7 million from the state general fund in the fiscal year beginning in July 2018 to replace the Expo Center building on the fairgrounds in Hutchinson.
The Oklahoma Libertarian party needed 2.5 percent of the 2016 vote The requirement determined their ballot access for two more years On Thursday, the party announced it gained 5.7 percent of the vote for Gary Johnson The party also announced two new umbrella organizations: The Cherokee County Libertarians and the Central Region Libertarians New murder trial begins against former TPD officer One killed at doorstep of north Tulsa football watch party State of the State address planned Group raises money for Leon Russell memorial in Tulsa FOX23 Investigates: Could millions in DeVos family donations sway senate confirmation votes?