Political Quotes

“Now, on another matter, the pending nominations of the President's Cabinet, again, we are in unchartered waters with this administration. They have not proposed a normal Cabinet. This is not even close to a normal Cabinet. I have never seen a Cabinet this full of bankers and billionaires, folks with massive conflicts of interest and such little experience or expertise in the areas they will oversee. Many of the nominees have philosophies that cut against the very nature of the Department to which they were nominated. Let me give you two examples this morning: Betsy DeVos, the nominee for the Department of Education, and Andrew Puzder, nominee for the Labor Department. First, Betsy DeVos. When you judge her in three areas--conflicts of interest, basic competence, and ideology, views on education policy--it is clear that Betsy DeVos is unfit for the job of Education Secretary. In all three areas, ideology, competence, and conflicts of interest, she rates among the lowest of any Cabinet nominee I have ever seen. At her hearing, she didn't seem to know basic facts about Federal education law that guarantee education to students with disabilities. She didn't seem to know the basic facts of a long simmering debate in education policy measuring growth proficiency.…”