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Congresswoman Marcia Fudge House Floor Statement on the Pending Confirmation of Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Yesterday, Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, delivered the following statement to oppose Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education:

"Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.  I rise today with my colleagues, Representatives Beatty and Kaptur to address the Secretary of Education.

"Mr. Speaker, Betsy DeVos is an imminent and present danger to all of America’s children.  She does not support public schools. Public schools are where 93% or better of all America’s children attend.

"She opposes increased accountability and transparency in for-profit schools, and has a privatization agenda that can set public education back more than 50 years. 

"Even more alarming? She breaks laws and does not pay her bills.

"DeVos has owed my home state of Ohio $5.3 million since 2008 for violating campaign finance laws. And, despite repeated attempts to collect the money, she has failed to pay the fines.

"As Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, I am deeply concerned about DeVos’ nomination for Secretary of Education. And, as a Member of the Ohio Delegation, I am appalled by her deliberate refusal to pay back millions of fines to our state.

"We cannot give the purse strings of America’s education system to someone only concerned with her own bank account. And, we cannot entrust the future of our children to a person who breaks the law, cozies up to Wall Street, and calls public schools – which I believe are the bedrock of our education system – “a dead end.”

"I urge my Senate colleagues to vote No on DeVos. The future of our country and our children are at stake. I yield back."

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