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Sen. Tammy Baldwin
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It’s just wrong for big corporations to pocket massive, permanent tax breaks and reward the wealth of top executives with more stock buybacks, while closing facilities and laying off workers.
https://twitter.com/SenatorBaldwin/status/1111289593364647938
April 2 2019 vote for Chief Judge Lisa Neubauer - "Highest Court"
Chief Judge Lisa Neubauer - "Highest Court" via @YouTube #voteblue
http://networkforpubliceducation.org/asleepatthewheel/
REPORT **the U.S. gov't has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never opened, or opened
The U.S. government has wasted up to $1 billion on charter schools that never opened, or opened and then closed because of mismanagement and other reasons, according to a report from the Network for Public Education.
https://twitter.com/EXPOSEDbyCMD/status/1111009439119638528
March 23, 2019 12:45 am
Asleep at the Wheel: How the Federal Charter Schools Program Recklessly Takes Taxpayers and Students for a Ride
http://networkforpubliceducation.org/asleepatthewheel/
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This report details the Network for Public Education’s two month examination of the U.S. Department of Education’s Charter Schools Program (CSP). Our investigation found a troubling pattern of insufficient applicant review, contradictions between information provided by applicants and available public data, the gifting of funds to schools with inadequate financial and governance plans, a push-out of large grants to the states with little supervision by the department, and the waste of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars.
By comparing claims made by charter grant applicants to information on state databases and school websites, we found numerous examples of federal tax dollars being misspent due to an inattentive process that routinely accepts applicants’ claims without scrutiny.
We found that it is likely that as many as one third of all charter schools receiving CSP grants never opened, or opened and shut down. In fact, the failure rates for grant-awarded charter schools in California has reached nearly four in ten.........................
Has a US President ever interferred in the personal matters of Congress before-this time demanding
that @RepAdamSchiff resign!!
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1111217169730338816
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1h1 hour ago
Wow -- after all Republican members of the House Intel Committee file a letter asking @RepAdamSchiff to resign over Russiagate, Schiff ticks through the major pieces of evidence indicating collusion and says, "you might think it's OK... I don't think that's OK!"
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1111259975714828289
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1111266602195009541
https://twitter.com/funder/status/1111267622837014529
https://twitter.com/RanttMedia/status/1111270047450886144
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1111267971287130116
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1111262346742284288
https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1111269330728173568
https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/1111266230235774976
CNN mocks STUPID @GOP Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) who blames Mueller for failure to repeal Obamacare
https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1111252729010245632
Every day gets worse
CNN’s Camerota mocks GOP lawmaker who blames Mueller for failure to repeal Obamacare
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/cnns-camerota-mocks-gop-lawmaker-blames-mueller-failure-repeal-obamacare/
28 Mar 2019 at 08:59 ET
CNN's Alisyn Camerota debates Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) (Screen cap).
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During a discussion about Mueller’s still-unreleased report about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Marshall fumed that this Republican Party did close to nothing during the two years it held total power in the federal government, and he blamed the Russia investigation for his own party’s inaction.
“It’s very frustrating that we have frozen America over a false narrative for two years, when we could have solved health care, built a wall,” he said. “There are so many things we could have done!”
Camerota did not buy Marshall’s excuse, however, and quickly called him out for it.
“Hold on a second,” she interjected. “You think that, because of the Mueller report, that’s why the wall hasn’t been built, that’s why health care hasn’t been solved?”
“I think it is a great deal of it!” he replied. “This single issue takes up all the oxygen in D.C.! I have never been to a place that couldn’t do two or three things at one time!”........................................
Feinstein Demands Vote on Resolution Calling for Release of Mueller Report March 27, 2019
I think I read that McConnell Objected!
Feinstein Demands Vote on Resolution Calling for Release of Mueller Report
Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on the Senate floor, demanded a vote on a House resolution that calls for the Mueller report to be made public. March 27, 2019. #TrumpUnfit #GOPcorruption
Pelosi: Message to Republicans: stop trying to take away Americans' health care! #ProtectOurCare
Victory that we needed.
Message to Republicans: stop trying to take away Americans’ health care! #ProtectOurCare
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1111036702473232384
Morning Joe is really doing a grand job of dragging Trump and Repugs through
the swamp on Tweety last 10 minutes.
'Betsy DeVos Won't Say Whether Schools Should Ban LGBTQ Discrimination'
Ari from The Beat on msnbc just covered this exchange
Betsy DeVos Won't Say Whether Schools Should Ban LGBTQ Discrimination
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Source: democracy Now
Mar 27, 2019
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Rep. Mark Pocan: “Do you think it’s all right for a school to discriminate based on someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity?”
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: “We have laws that cover discriminatory efforts, and our Office for Civil Rights has continued to be very diligent in investigating any allegation of discrimination and will continue to do so.”
Rep. Mark Pocan: “So, is that a yes, or is that a no? I’m trying to get a yes or no, I guess, on that.”
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: “We follow the law as this body has”—
Rep. Mark Pocan: “So, personally, you don’t have an opinion on it?”
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos: —”has defined. And”—
Rep. Mark Pocan: “OK. Because you are giving money—it leads me to the next question. You are giving money to some charter schools that do discriminate.”
Read more: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/27/headlines/betsy_devos_wont_say_whether_schools_should_ban_lgbtq_discrimination
‘Betsy DeVos Won’t Say Whether Schools Should Ban LGBTQ Discrimination’
Cruella... defunding Special Olympics... now this. So many evil acts. So little time. 🙄https://www.democracynow.org/2019/3/27/headlines/betsy_devos_wont_say_whether_schools_should_ban_lgbtq_discrimination …
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Betsy DeVos Won’t Say Whether Schools Should Ban LGBTQ Discrimination
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos refused to state Tuesday whether schools should be allowed to discriminate against students based on sexual orientation or gender identity. This is Betsy DeVos being...
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