Betsy DeVos at risk of subpoena after refusing to testify before House education panel

Schooling Secretary Betsy DeVos is refusing to testify earlier than the Home Schooling and Labor Committee about her division's assortment of scholar mortgage debt from former Corinthian Schools students, regardless of a menace of a subpoena from House Democrats.

"Secretary DeVos has declined to testify and we're reviewing our options, including a subpoena," a committee aide informed POLITICO Thursday night time. Committee Chairman Bobby Scott (D-Va.) had given DeVos till Thursday at 6 p.m. to answer the committee's request that she seem.

House Democrats are scheduled to hold a listening to on Nov. 19 on the Schooling Division's "refusal to offer debt aid" to college students "who have been defrauded" by the now defunct for-profit chain Corinthian Schools, in line with the listening to posting.

Final month, a federal judge held DeVos in contempt of court and imposed a $100,000 nice for violating an order to cease amassing on the scholar loans owed by former Corinthian college students. The department admitted to the courtroom earlier this yr that it had erroneously collected on the loans of some 16,000 debtors who attended Corinthian Schools.

Scott, in a letter to DeVos on Nov. 1, stated his committee would consider using its authorized authority to compel her testimony if she did not accept a suggestion to seem voluntarily.

Earlier than Scott's Nov. 1 letter, the division's appearing basic counsel, Reed Rubinstein, wrote to Scott saying that DeVos wasn't capable of testify, citing “lively litigation."

Scott's follow-up letter insisted that DeVos was the only applicable Schooling Division witness to testify on the matter.

DeVos, in a letter to Scott launched by the division on Thursday night time, steered to Scott that "you and I have a conversation, both in individual or over the telephone, at your convenience to debate borrower protection claims." She stated that she had initially had recommended an in-person briefing for Scott with Mark Brown, the top of Federal Scholar Help, because of the complexity of the case.

"These back-and-forth letters seem to do little to advance the public good, although clearly, are effective at producing headlines," DeVos wrote Scott.

She added that his letter to her "suggests a primary misunderstanding of the state of play," that the department needs to process the scholar claims and "what we'd like is swift motion by the courtroom."

Stated DeVos: "There's nothing more I can supply than that. It's, fairly simply, the reply to all the questions you will have posed."

Rubinstein, in a separate letter to the chairman, stated the department was not “averse to the Secretary showing earlier than the committee sooner or later in the comparatively near future to testify relating to Borrower Defense.” Nevertheless, he stipulated it might solely be applicable after the committee heard from Brown and after the 9th Circuit Courtroom of Appeals renders a ultimate choice on the merits of the case within the pending attraction.

Article initially revealed on POLITICO Magazine

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