During a Senate Education Committee hearing last week, Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) discussed President Trump's cuts to the Office of Civil Rights.
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00:00We have time for one more amendment. Is there another amendment?
00:05I think that Patty is going to try to be here. What's the story?
00:13Patty is on the way and she would like to offer an amendment.
00:18Senator Murray, I think we have time for one more amendment. Senator Murray.
00:21Thank you so much. I really appreciate it and I want to call up Murray Amendment number one
00:25and speak in favor of my amendment. It is very simple.
00:28It would require the Secretary of Education to restore staffing levels for the investigative staff at the Office for Civil Rights
00:36and restore the regional office structure that existed before Trump took Hatchett to that office.
00:42Trump has fired nearly half the agency and shuttered more than half of the OCR offices.
00:47These actions have thrown 6,000 cases into question and left students in 28 states without the necessary resources to fight back.
00:57We cannot protect students on campus if we do not have the necessary staff at OCR.
01:03If we are serious about fighting anti-Semitism, if we are serious about protecting students from illegal discrimination,
01:10we need to get serious about staffing at the OCR and I request the A's and A's on my amendment.
01:16We are following the staffing and organizational changes at the Department of Ed, but this legislation is not the place to consider that.
01:23The Chair shall be voting no. The Clerk shall call the roll.
01:26Senator Paul?
01:27No by proxy.
01:28Senator Collins?
01:29No by proxy.
01:30No.
01:31No.
01:32I'm sorry.
01:33Senator Murkowski?
01:34No.
01:35Senator Mullin?
01:36No.
01:37Senator Marshall?
01:38No by proxy.
01:40Senator Scott?
01:41No by proxy.
01:42Senator Hawley?
01:43No by proxy.
01:44Senator Tuberville?
01:45No by proxy.
01:46Senator Banks?
01:47No by proxy.
01:48Senator Huston?
01:49No by proxy.
01:50Senator Huston?
01:51No by proxy.
01:52Senator Moody?
01:53No.
01:54Senator Sanders?
01:55Aye.
01:56Senator Murray?
01:57Aye.
01:58Senator Baldwin?
01:59Aye.
02:00Senator Murphy?
02:01Aye.
02:02Senator Kaine?
02:03Aye.
02:04Senator Hassan?
02:05Aye.
02:06Senator Hickenlooper?
02:07Aye.
02:08Senator Markey?
02:09Aye.
02:10Senator Kim?
02:11Aye.
02:12Senator Blunt Rochester?
02:13Senator Kim? Senator Blunt-Rochester? Senator Ulsterbrooks? Chairman Cassidy?
02:20Chairman Cassidy? Senator Cassidy is a no. I have 11 ayes, 12 nays. The amendment is not agreed to.