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<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/25/betsy-devos-ethics-report-reveals-ties-student-debt-collection-firm/ Betsy DeVos Ethics Report Reveals Ties to Student Debt Collection Firm]</h3>
Public education advocates are demanding another hearing on Trump nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, after her dismal performance in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee (HELP) January 17th and after the late release of her ethics report on January 20th.
The report, available [https://www.scribd.com/document/337104757/U-S-Office-of-Government-Ethics-Report-for-Betsy-DeVos here], details some 102 companies that might pose a conflict of interest for DeVos and sheds new light on the nominee’s investments and ethics. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/25/betsy-devos-ethics-report-reveals-ties-student-debt-collection-firm/ here].
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<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/18/scott-pruitt-trump-pick-epa/ Scott Pruitt: Trump’s Pick for EPA]</h3>
<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/18/scott-pruitt-trump-pick-epa/ Scott Pruitt: Trump’s Pick for EPA]</h3>


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Many fossil fuel funded groups responded to Pruitt's nomination with delight. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) also expressed its own support for Pruitt, who is a former ALEC member, stressing that he would "work constructively with industry" as well as the states to "spur economic growth." Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/18/scott-pruitt-trump-pick-epa/ here].
Many fossil fuel funded groups responded to Pruitt's nomination with delight. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) also expressed its own support for Pruitt, who is a former ALEC member, stressing that he would "work constructively with industry" as well as the states to "spur economic growth." Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/18/scott-pruitt-trump-pick-epa/ here].
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<h3>[http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/11/letter-to-senate-committee-on-rex-tillersons-exxon-funding-for-alec/ Exxon Illegally Funded ALEC Under Tillerson’s Tenure, CMD Tells Committee]</h3>
'''Written Statement of Lisa Graves on Behalf of the Center for Media and Democracy Submitted to the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations'''
''Hearing on the Nomination of Rex Tillerson to Be U.S. Secretary of State.''
Dear Chairman Corker, Ranking Member Cardin and Members of the Committee:
The Center for Media and Democracy (CMD) would like to bring your attention a matter of serious concern regarding the nomination of ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson to be U.S. Secretary of State. We would also respectfully request that this letter be included in the hearing record on his nomination, which we oppose.
For more than a decade under Mr. Tillerson’s tenure, Exxon has poured millions of dollars into nonprofit organizations in order to undermine public confidence in climate science and promote its anti-regulatory agenda. Read the rest of this item [http://www.exposedbycmd.org/2017/01/11/letter-to-senate-committee-on-rex-tillersons-exxon-funding-for-alec/ here].
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Betsy DeVos Ethics Report Reveals Ties to Student Debt Collection Firm

Public education advocates are demanding another hearing on Trump nominee for Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, after her dismal performance in front of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee (HELP) January 17th and after the late release of her ethics report on January 20th.

The report, available here, details some 102 companies that might pose a conflict of interest for DeVos and sheds new light on the nominee’s investments and ethics. Read the rest of this item here.


Scott Pruitt: Trump’s Pick for EPA

Scott Pruitt is President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since 2010, he has been the Attorney General of Oklahoma, having previously served in the Oklahoma State Senate from 1999 to 2006.

Pruitt was the subject of a Pulitzer prize winning New York Times investigation in 2014 ("Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General") which described "the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation's top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda". He describes himself as "a leading advocate against the EPA's activist agenda."

Many fossil fuel funded groups responded to Pruitt's nomination with delight. The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) also expressed its own support for Pruitt, who is a former ALEC member, stressing that he would "work constructively with industry" as well as the states to "spur economic growth." Read the rest of this item here.