Pensions committee the topics include School Choice, vouchers, Student Loan Debt and Education Program funding. This is three and a half hours. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the hearing of the Health Education labor and Pensions Committee will come to order. This hearing today is to consider the nomination of betsy devos the United States secretary of education. Senator murray and i will make an Opening Statement. I will introduce the nominee. We welcome senator scott a member of this committee senator lieberman a distinguished former member of this body who will make introductory remarks and following the nominees comments we will have a fiveminute round of questions. One note we have capital officers here today who will remove anyone who attempts to disrupt
Education secretary nominee, betsy devos. The session is underway right now. You can watch it on cspan2. Getting yourng by reaction in hearing what you think about the senate fight over the nomination. Give us a call. A special line for teachers. You can catch up with us on social media. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. It is not a filibustering since theres nothing the democrats can do from keeping the nomination vote from happening, but democrats have been trying to make the most of their time, the 30 hours they have been given to speak against the nomination. The Senate Session began yesterday just after noon with Senate Health education labor Ranking Member patty murray starting off the speaking. Madam president , this nomination is that even right now. Senators, democrats and republicans will vote to reject betsy devos. We need just one more republican to join us, to stand on the side of students and parents and Public Education in america and say no to betsy devos. Madam presi
Walked into Holy Cross Hospital and the emergency room personnel called police. Police went to the hospital, confirmed they found a gunshot victim there, police here are telling us theyre looking to see if that may be connected to what happened here on hawk run terrace. Lets playing now a sound bite from Montgomery County police. He talks about the people they into contact custody. We counted he as many as five perhaps six taken away from handcuffs. Heres what he has to investigators located some potential witnesses within a home adjacent to the parking lot where the victim is located. Theyve been taken into investigative detention so we can interview them and determine what part any one ofth maybe just a witness most people we saw in cuffs were a variety of older men, younger men, some women that we saw taken in, one man was very and clearly uncooperative and the officer was struggling with him as he was taking him to put him into a cruise. We saw as many as five, six people in handcu
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