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Jon Tester: “I say to Senator Durbin, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that the number of Cabinet appointees were much…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2017
I say to Senator Durbin, there has been a lot of talk about the fact that the number of Cabinet appointees were much higher in the Obama administration than they are now. Could you take us back 8 years ago? I mean, we just confirmed a lady to be Secretary of Education who has never spent 1 minute in a public school classroom, on a school board, teaching, student, otherwise. There are claims out there about some of these nominees being involved in insider trading. There are claims out there that some of these nominees did not pay their taxes. Could you take us back 8 years ago and tell us how those folks were treated, if there was anything wrong with them when they came to this floor?
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana
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Feb 6, 2017

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