Pence breaks tie to 確認する US education 選ぶ DeVos
大統領 Donald Trump's 行政 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd a victory over 民主党員s Tuesday with the US 上院's 確定／確認 of Betsy DeVos as education 長官, after 副大統領 マイク Pence cast a historic tie-breaking 投票（する）.
The 議会 行き詰まるd at 50-50, with two 共和国の／共和党のs breaking 階級s to …に反対する Trump's hotly contested 指名された人, a 億万長者 who 支持する／優勝者s using taxpayer monies to help 基金 個人として run schools.
Pence was needed to break the tie, the first time a sitting 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 has ever cast a deciding 投票（する） for a 閣僚 選ぶ.
Newly 確認するd Education 長官 Betsy DeVos, is seen testifyi ng January 17, 2017, during her 確定／確認 審理，公聴会 before the 上院 Health, Education, Labor and 年金s 委員会 ?CHIP SOMODEVILLA (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
The White House 拍手喝采する the 確定／確認, with 広報担当者 Sean Spicer 説 DeVos "will 確実にする that every student has 接近 to a good school, whether it's public, 私的な or 借り切る／憲章."
But Pence 軍隊／機動隊ing up to the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 to 海難救助 DeVos's 指名／任命 was lousy 視覚のs for the 行政 as Trump struggles to get his 閣僚 in place.
Just five of 15 閣僚 members have now been 確認するd, in 新規加入 to the 閣僚-階級 positions of 中央情報局 director and US 外交官／大使 to the 国際連合.
By the same time in 2008, all but three members of 大統領，／社長 Barack Obama's 閣僚 were in place.
上院 大多数 Leader Mitch McConnell 爆破d 民主党員s for slow-walking 指名された人s, 説 they せねばならない "get over the 選挙 (and) let this 行政 get up and get running."
McConnell has placed the 指名／任命s for 弁護士／代理人／検事 general, health 長官 and 長，率いる of US 財務省 on the calendar.
"All should be 確認するd this week," he said.
- Contentious 選ぶ -
DeVos, the 59-year-old political scion from Michigan, had 誘発する／引き起こすd an outpouring of 失望／欲求不満 and 怒り／怒る late last year, as critics 爆破d Trump's education 選ぶ as someone who had never …に出席するd public schools or worked in the public school system.
Two 穏健な 共和国の／共和党のs, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, bucked Trump and …に反対するd his choice, 特記する／引用するing DeVos's 欠如（する） of 資格s for the 地位，任命する that 監督するs thousands of schools, millions of students and curric ulum 基準s.
民主党員s were unable to 納得させる another 共和国の／共和党の to defect, にもかかわらず 激しい ロビーing that 最高潮に達するd with an all-night Democratic talk-a-thon late Monday into Tuesday on the 上院 床に打ち倒す.
"I thought we had some chance," said 最高の，を越す 上院 民主党員 Chuck Schumer. "We realized even if we didn't, to make the point that DeVos was so anti-public education was an important point to make."
Several 民主党員s 最高潮の場面d ぐずぐず残る questions about DeVos's 財政上の entanglements and her 明らかな 欠如（する） of understanding about basic education 問題／発行するs.
支持者s 賞賛する the 政治上-connected businesswoman and philanthropist as a 猛烈な／残忍な 支持する of school choice, a US movement that 捜し出すs to use 税金 credits and 保証人／証拠物件s to 許す parents to 選ぶ out of the public school system in 好意 of 個人として managed 借り切る／憲章 schools for their children.
- '地元の 支配（する）／統制する' -
共和国の／共和党の 上院議員 略奪する Portman said DeVos would not 支配する with a 激しい 手渡す from Washington.
"She 堅固に supports 地元の 支配（する）／統制する of education and has 誓約（する）d not to 課す her own 見解（をとる）s on 明言する／公表するs and 地元の school 地区s, but rather to 許す them -- along with parents -- to make the 決定／判定勝ち（する）s that best fit the needs of their children," Portman said.
The 大統領，／社長 has 堅固に 非難するd 民主党員s for …に反対するing his 閣僚 指名／任命s, tweeting that they should be "ashamed of themselves" for 妨害するing the 過程.
One 指名された人 that 民主党員s have 押し進めるd 支援する はっきりと against is one of the 上院's own, US 弁護士／代理人／検事 general 指名された人 上院議員 Jeff 開会／開廷／会期s, an 早期に Trump 支援者 during the 大統領の （選挙などの）運動をする.
開会／開廷／会期s 耐える d a contentious 審理，公聴会, during which 民主党員s questioned his civil 権利s 記録，記録的な／記録する and his 対立 to 移民／移住.
His 同僚s 投票（する）d to 前進する his 指名／任命, setting up a 確定／確認 投票（する） for this week.
DeVos is いっそう少なく 井戸／弁護士席 known than 開会／開廷／会期s. But she is a fixture in the education world, having served on the boards of 非，不，無-利益（をあげる） groups that support school choice.
"Parents no longer believe that a one-size-fits-all model of learning 会合，会うs the needs of every child, and they know other 選択s 存在する -- whether magnet, 事実上の, 借り切る／憲章, home, 宗教的な or any combination thereof," she said at her 確定／確認 審理，公聴会.
Until her 指名／任命, she 議長，司会を務めるd the American 連合 for Children, a DeVos family umbrella organization that supports 進歩 of school choice outside of Michigan.
"Our work in Michigan was so successful that some of our friends in the movement began to say, 'We really need to do this 国家的に,'" DeVos said in a 2013 interview with the Philanthropy 円卓会議の.
"And I said, 'Yes, I think we do.'"
Betsy DeVos ?ジーンズ Michel CORNU, Vincent LEFAI (AFP)
US 副大統領 マイク Pence (C) arrives on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill in Washington, DC, February 7, 2017 ?JIM WATSON (AFP)
Protestors 論証する against 大統領 Trump's 指名された人 for 長官 of education, Betsy DeVos, on （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 Hill on February 6, 2017 in Washington, DC ?MARIO TAMA (GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA/AFP/とじ込み／提出する)
