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Moderate GOP Senators Try to Block Shutdown of Dept. of Ed

Moderate Republicans in the Senate Committee on Health, Education and Pensions have introduced two bills that would prohibit outsourcing certain education programs from the U.S. Department of Education to other federal agencies, blocking a complete shutdown of the federal agency.

Under bill S. 5046, sponsored by Sens. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, the Education Department could not transfer offices that oversee special education, postsecondary education, elementary and secondary education, and Native American education programs.

The bipartisan measure would prevent federal agencies from using existing interagency agreements, contracting, and transfer authorities to circumvent bans on interagency agreements. A separate bill—the Special Education Administration Protection Act—filed by Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., would bar the Education Department from outsourcing special education programming to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Cassidy, a physician, is chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

Corey DeAngelis, a research fellow at the Center for........

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