SENATE UPDATE: Education Week Ahead
Votes scheduled for the nomination of Linda McMahon for Education Secretary and on a bill to protect girls in school sports
Last Week
Daniel Driscoll was confirmed as Secretary of the Army (66-28).
Jamieson Greer was confirmed as U.S. Trade Representative (56-43).
The Senate voted to undo a Biden energy regulation that would have blocked offshore drilling and other energy production projects (54-44).
Conservative Spotlight
TOMMY TUBERVILLE — This week, the Senate will take up Sen. “Coach” Tommy Tuberville’s (R-AL) bill to protect girls in school sports from trans extremism. Fairness for female athletes has been a top priority for the former Auburn football coach — and for conservatives around the country. As you know, girls and young women today are being forced to share fields, courts, and locker rooms with biological males, losing medals and privacy and sustaining terrible injuries. This is a huge issue — and a key promise Republicans have to keep. The first procedural vote on the bill will be late this afternoon.
You can help pressure the Senate to support Sen. Tuberville’s bill to protect girls in sports by emailing your senators and calling these ten Democrats who represent states that President Trump won last year.
AZ - Gallego - D - (202) 224-3622
AZ - Kelly - D - (202) 224-2235
GA - Ossoff - D - (202) 224-3521
GA - Warnock - D - (202) 224-3643
MI - Peters - D - (202) 224-6221
MI - Slotkin - D - (202) 224-3622
NV - Cortez Masto - D - (202) 224-3542
NV - Rosen - D - (202) 224-6244
PA - Fetterman - D - (202) 224-4254
WI - Baldwin - D - (202) 224-5653
JOSH HAWLEY — Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) notched a big win last week when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Gail Slater to be Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust. Hawley has been the tip of the spear on the Right warning about the dangers of concentrated corporate power — especially in the technology sector. Hawley knows that social media censorship, the de-banking of conservatives, and the corporate embrace of DEI bigotry is not just “woke” — it’s a threat to our constitutional order. Slater will bring Hawley’s style of principled, conservative antitrust enforcement to the DOJ — and accountability to Big Tech. You can watch Hawley’s excellent questioning of Slater in her Judiciary Committee hearing here.
This Week
This is a big week for education reform in the U.S. Senate.
The first vote of the upcoming week will be to confirm Linda McMahon as Education Secretary.
Then, the Senate will vote on whether to take up Sen. Tuberville’s “Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.”
Thank you for your continued support. We will keep fighting!
