i wanted to make sure she was committed to enforcing civil rights laws that protect all children so that they have access to education and i was very concerned that she seemed confused or unfamiliar with the fact the i.d.e.a. is a federal law she would be charged with enforcing and i think it s appropriate that we make sure that the country s top education officer really does understand the full obligations in the way our public education system works. i was very concerned she was so unfamiliar with such a basic thing and that goes to concerns a lot of us have that ms. devos does not have experience significant experience with public education, didn t go to public schools herself, her children don t, she s never been a teacher. so i just was very concerned. senator, are you going to vote for her? look, i m going to wait t
that could affect its value, that raises very serious ethical issues and perhaps legal issues. the person who should be secretary of health should not have those types of ethical lapses. i have to say, senator, that part of the old cliche about the scandals what s legal has been illuminating to see what exactly you guys in congress are able to do within the law. for instance, buying preferred stock from a company at a place you regulate but the stock act was introduced to cut out the worst excesses after a big investigation. the trump folks are saying the cnn report is wrong, that it should be retracted and that representative price had no idea that stock was being purchased for that hip company when he was going to introduce legislation that benefitted them a week later do you believe congressman price? you re absolutely right about the stock act. it was passed in order to prevent these types of abuses. i think this should never have been done. a congressman should not be buying sto
of our children. and before the i.d.ea. was passed, children like my son were often put in institutions where they didn t have access to education, people assumed or stereotyped them believing they couldn t learn and when you think about the importance of that civil rights law to children like my son and children around the country it was really concerning to me that ms. devos seemed so unfamiliar with it. and problems with the voucher system she has supported has had in honoring the i.d.e.a. what do you say to people that say that senate democrats on that committee are essentially playing gotcha. that you are trying to quiz her and go into obscure areas of policy in order to catch her. there is nothing obscure to my family about the i.d.e.a. there is nothing obscure to most educators i know about the importance of educating all our
issues and perhaps legal issues. the person who should be secretary of health should not have those types of ethical lapses. i have to say, senator, that part of the old cliche about the scandals what s legal has been illuminating to see what exactly you guys in congress are able to do within the law. for instance, buying preferred stock from a company at a place you regulate but the stock act was introduced to cut out the worst excesses after a big investigation. the trump folks are saying the cnn report is wrong, that it should be retracted and that representative price had no idea that stock was being purchased for that hip company when he was going to introduce legislation that benefitted them a week later do you believe congressman price? you re absolutely right about the stock act. it was passed in order to prevent these types of abuses. i think this should never have been done. a congressman should not be buying stock in a company and