Yesterday, on a party-line 50-48 vote, the Senate finally confirmed Brigadier General Mitchell Zais to serve as the U.S. deputy secretary of education - 221 days after he was nominated by President Trump.
Senate Education Committee chair Lamar Alexander observed that the delay in confirming Zais - a former college president and state superintendent of education - was "Inexcusable" and that he "Did not deserve to be subject to Democrats' unreasonable and unnecessary obstruction." Yet that obstruction has been all too common.
Betsy DeVos's tenure as secretary of education has featured plenty of bumps and rough patches, with Democrats and the press eager to highlight each as evidence of perfidy or incompetence.
While it was slow to put nominees forward, the oft-dysfunctional Trump administration has had a slate of qualified Department of Education nominees awaiting confirmation for the better part of a year.
Prior to appointment, Schneider had a long career as an accomplished academic, author of influential books and papers on K-12 and higher education, and the U.S. commissioner of education statistics.
Obama's education appointees were a qualified bunch, and a president is entitled to choose as he likes.
In total, six Trump Department of Education nominees already confirmed by the Senate collectively spent 514 more days awaiting confirmation than their Obama counterparts.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/democrats-delaying-confirmation-education-department-nominees/
Senate Education Committee chair Lamar Alexander observed that the delay in confirming Zais - a former college president and state superintendent of education - was "Inexcusable" and that he "Did not deserve to be subject to Democrats' unreasonable and unnecessary obstruction." Yet that obstruction has been all too common.
Betsy DeVos's tenure as secretary of education has featured plenty of bumps and rough patches, with Democrats and the press eager to highlight each as evidence of perfidy or incompetence.
While it was slow to put nominees forward, the oft-dysfunctional Trump administration has had a slate of qualified Department of Education nominees awaiting confirmation for the better part of a year.
Prior to appointment, Schneider had a long career as an accomplished academic, author of influential books and papers on K-12 and higher education, and the U.S. commissioner of education statistics.
Obama's education appointees were a qualified bunch, and a president is entitled to choose as he likes.
In total, six Trump Department of Education nominees already confirmed by the Senate collectively spent 514 more days awaiting confirmation than their Obama counterparts.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/democrats-delaying-confirmation-education-department-nominees/
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