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2020-11-18 Home Front: Politix
Jill Biden is being floated for Secretary of Education
[BUFFALOCHRONICLE] Following pushback to rumors late last week that Michelle Rhee is at the top of President-elect Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing...
’s shortlist to lead the Department of Education, the transition team is now quietly floating the idea of nominating the First-Lady-in-Waiting, Dr. Jill Biden to the cabinet post.If she is nominated and confirmed, it would be the first time in American history that a First Lady serves in a President’s cabinet administration. (Then-former First Lady Eleanore Roosevelt served as UN Ambassador from 1947 to 1953, but that ambassadorship was not included as a Cabinet position at the time).
And as First Lady Hillary Clinton headed a committee to develop Obamacare v.0, which was rightfully never taken seriously. Would that Obamacare v.1.0 had been equally ignored.
Dr. Biden is a longtime college professor. If she were to lead the Department, it’s widely thought that her policy agenda would emphasize investment in local community colleges and trade schools, while vastly expanding the vocational training programs that are offered at the nation’s public schools.

Rhee is still thought to be in contention for the post, and some Republicans believe Dr. Biden’s nomination is being floated merely to gauge the reaction of the progressive wing of the party.

Rhee’s support of charter schools, expanding standardized testing, and performance incentives for teachers, has angered many teachers’ unions but she retains strong support from moderates and centrists in both parties.
Posted by Fred 2020-11-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 ....For some reason, I seem to remember - but will happily admit to error - that there was a law passed after the Kennedy Administration that blocked this practice.

Unless, of course, Mrs. Biden is special.

Mike
Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2020-11-18 06:18||   2020-11-18 06:18|| Front Page Top

#2 mike K

you are thinking of 5 USC 3110 passed in 1967

This would bar Dr. Jill from S of Ed. if Joe was POTUS. However, Congress could amend this law to carve out a one time exception. They could pass this exception at the same time as they confirmed her.
Posted by Lord Garth 2020-11-18 09:12||   2020-11-18 09:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Counting unhatched chickens votes?
Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-18 09:33||   2020-11-18 09:33|| Front Page Top

#4 Hunter Biden for Drug Czar or Ambassador to China; he has the experience America needs.
Posted by Airandee 2020-11-18 14:14||   2020-11-18 14:14|| Front Page Top

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