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Committee approves Betsy Devos nomination, full Senate to take up vote

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One of the more controversial of Donald Trump's cabinet nominees has won committee approval.

The education committee today approved the nomination of Betsy DeVos to be education secretary, after a clash by Republican and Democratic senators over the nomination.

Democrat Patty Murray charged that DeVos has spent her family's wealth to push "extreme anti-student ideology."