1. Education secretary pick Betsy DeVos walks into hearing room 2. Cutaway of Devos sitting at table 3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lamar Alexande, Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair: “Betsy Devos in my opinion is on our children’s side. She has devoted to helping mainly low income children have better choices of schools. Most of the criticism I’ve heard of her amounts to three things. One, she supports public charter schools. Two, she supports giving lower income parents more choices of schools for their children and three, she has used her considerable wealth and effectiveness to advance those ideas. I believe she is in the mainstream of public opinion, and her critics are not.” 4. Cutaway 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Pat Murray, (D) Washington: “I am extremely disappointed that we are moving forward with this hearing before receiving the proper paperwork from the Office of Government Ethics. When President Obama entered the White House Republicans insisted on having an ethics letter in hand before moving to a hearing. In fact, leader McConnell wrote a letter to leader Reid, making that explicit demand, an ethics letter in hand with time to review and an FBI background check, before a hearing was held. So I am extremely concerned and I can only hope that cutting corners and rushing nominees through, will not be the new norm.” 6. Cutaway 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Joe Lieberman, Fmr. Connecticut Senator: “We just can’t accept the status quo in education, anymore. We need a change agent and an education reformer to be education secretary. A leader who has one big goal which is to give every child in America, regardless of family income or zip code, a first class education. And that is exactly the kind of education secretary I believe Betsy DeVos can and will be.” 8. Cutaway 9. SOUNDBITE (English) Betsy, DeVos, Education Secretary Nominee: “Why in 2017 are we still questioning parents ability to exercise educational choice for their children. I am a firm believer that parents should be empowered to choose the learning environment that’s best for each of their individual children. The vast majority of children in this country will continue to attend public schools. If confirmed, I will be a strong advocate for great public schools. But if a school is troubled, or unsafe, or not a good fit for a child, perhaps they have a special need that is going unmet, we should support a parent’s right to enroll their child is a high quality alternative.” 10. Cutaway of Senator Bernie Sanders asking question 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont: “My question is and I don’t mean to be rude, but do you think if you were not a multi-billionaire, if your family has not made hundreds of millions of dollars contributions to the Republican party, that you would be sitting here today?” 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Betsy, DeVos, Education Secretary Nominee: “Senator as a matter of fact I do think that there would be that possibility, I have worked very hard on behalf of parents and children for almost the last 30 years, to be a voice for students and to empower parents to make decisions on behalf of their children, primarily low income children.” 13. OUNDBITE (English) Sen. Bernie Sanders, (I) Vermont: “Will you work with me and others to make public colleges and universities tution free through federal and state efforts?” 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Betsy, DeVos, Education Secretary Nominee: “Senator I think that is a really interesting idea and its really great to consider and think about but I think we have to also consider the fact that nothing in life that’s truly free, somebody is going to pay for it.” (Saunders of camera: somebody will pay for it but that’s another issue.” 15. Cutaway of DeVos