Emmanuel Macron’s West Bank Whopper
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New York’s two Democratic senators split their votes yesterday on a landmark piece of legislation — a spending bill that, among its other provisions, created a school voucher program in Washington, D.C. that will begin this fall. Senator Clinton voted against the bill, casting a vote to keep thousands of poor children in Washington trapped in a failing school system. The public schools in Washington are so bad that when Mrs. Clinton and her husband lived there, they opted not to send their daughter Chelsea to public school. Instead she went to a private school, Sidwell Friends. The law that Senator Schumer voted for — and that Mrs. Clinton voted against — would allow ordinary residents of the District of Columbia to get the same chance to opt out that Chelsea Clinton did. It would provide $14 million to grant scholarships of up to $7,500 to at least 1,600 schoolchildren, allowing them to attend private or parochial schools. Yesterday’s vote split not just New York’s Democratic senators but also California’s. Senator Feinstein, like Mr. Schumer, voted for the voucher bill. Senator Boxer, like Mrs. Clinton, voted against it. The bill ended up passing into law on a 65-to-28 vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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|New York’s two Democratic senators split their votes yesterday on a landmark piece of legislation — a spending bill that, among its other provisions, created a school voucher program in Washington, D.C. that will begin this fall. Senator Clinton voted against the bill, casting a vote to keep thousands of poor children in Washington trapped in a failing school system. The public schools in Washington are so bad that when Mrs. Clinton and her husband lived there, they opted not to send their daughter Chelsea to public school. Instead she went to a private school, Sidwell Friends. The law that Senator Schumer voted for — and that Mrs. Clinton voted against — would allow ordinary residents of the District of Columbia to get the same chance to opt out that Chelsea Clinton did. It would provide $14 million to grant scholarships of up to $7,500 to at least 1,600 schoolchildren, allowing them to attend private or parochial schools. Yesterday’s vote split not just New York’s Democratic senators but also California’s. Senator Feinstein, like Mr. Schumer, voted for the voucher bill. Senator Boxer, like Mrs. Clinton, voted against it. The bill ended up passing into law on a 65-to-28 vote in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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