Betsy DeVos 確認するd as education 長官 as Pence breaks tie
The US 上院 has 確認するd school choice 支持する Betsy DeVos as education 長官 by the narrowest of 利ざやs, with 副大統領 マイク Pence breaking a 50-50 tie in a historic 投票（する）.
Two 共和国の／共和党のs joined 民主党員s in the 不成功の 成果／努力 to derail the 指名／任命 of the 豊富な 共和国の／共和党の 寄贈者.
The 上院 historian said Mr Pence’s 投票（する） was the first by a 副／悪徳行為 大統領，／社長 to break a tie on a 閣僚 指名／任命.
Betsy DeVos (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
民主党員s 特記する／引用するd her 欠如（する） of public school experience and 財政上の 利益／興味s in organisations 押し進めるing 借り切る／憲章 schools.
Ms DeVos has said she wou ld divest herself from those organisations.
共和国の／共和党のs Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, 恐れる that Ms DeVos’s 焦点（を合わせる） on 借り切る／憲章 schools will 土台を崩す remote public schools in their 明言する／公表するs.
にもかかわらず the 勝利，勝つ, Ms DeVos 現れるs bruised from the 高度に 意見の不一致を生じる 指名／任命 過程.
She has 直面するd 批評, even ridicule for her つまずくs and 混乱 during her 確定／確認 審理，公聴会 and scathing 批評 from teachers’ unions and civil 権利s 行動主義者s over her support of 借り切る／憲章 schools and her 保守的な 宗教的な beliefs.
But 大統領 Donald Trump remained uncompromising and （刑事）被告 民主党員s of 捜し出すing to torpedo education 進歩.
In a tweet before the 投票（する）, he wrote: “Betsy DeVos is a 改革者, and she is going to be a 広大な／多数の／重要な Education Sec. for our kids!”
After an all-night speaking マラソン by 民主党員s, 上院議員 Patty Murray, of Washington 明言する／公表する, the 最高の，を越す 民主党員 on the Health, Education, 労働 and 年金s 委員会, 勧めるd her 共和国の／共和党の 同僚s to 投票（する） against Ms DeVos, calling her unqualified and 説 that she will be a poor 支持する for low income families and students with disabilities who rely on public education.
“We are just within one 投票（する） of sending this 指名／任命 支援する and asking the 大統領，／社長 to send us a 指名された人 that can be supported by members on both 味方するs of the aisle, that can 始める，決める a 見通し that can fight for public schools, that can be that 支持する／優勝者,” Ms Murray said.
上院 大多数 leader Mitch McConnell said Ms DeVos will 捜し出す to 権力を与える 明言する／公表するs, not 連邦の bureaucrats, to make important education 決定／判定勝ち（する）s.
“I know that she is committed to 改善するing our education system so that every child ? every child ? has a brighter 未来,” Mr McConnell said ahead of the 投票（する）.
Emotions ran high ahead of the 投票（する） as 選挙権を持つ／選挙人s jammed 上院議員s’ phone lines with calls and 抗議する人s gathered outside the （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂, 含むing one person in a grizzly 耐える 衣装 to ridicule Ms DeVos’s comment during her 確定／確認 審理，公聴会 that some schools might want guns to 保護する against grizzlies.
Her 対抗者s also 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金 that Ms DeVos has no experience to run public schools, having never …に出席するd one or sent her children to a public school.
Ms DeVos has 供給するd few 詳細（に述べる）s about her 政策 協議事項, but she is sure to have a busy 職業.
Ms DeVos will have to 重さを計る in on the 実施 of the Every Student 後継するs 行為／法令／行動する and かもしれない undo some of the previous 行政’s 規則 率先s on school accountability and spending, which have been criticised by 共和国の／共和党のs as 連邦の overreach. 支配するs on such things as accountability have already been on 持つ／拘留する.
She will have to 演説（する）／住所 several 問題／発行するs in higher education, such as rising tuition costs, growing student 負債 and the troubled for-利益（をあげる） colleges, many of which have の近くにd 負かす／撃墜する, leaving students with 抱擁する 貸付金s and without a good education or 職業 prospects.
