{"id":19822,"date":"2026-03-10T16:22:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/paul-hopes-for-mullins-dhs-confirmation-hearing-next-week\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:22:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:22:42","slug":"paul-hopes-for-mullins-dhs-confirmation-hearing-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/paul-hopes-for-mullins-dhs-confirmation-hearing-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul hopes for Mullin&#8217;s DHS confirmation hearing next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Monday he hopes to hold a confirmation hearing next week for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump&rsquo;s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). &ldquo;We&rsquo;re shooting for a week from Wednesday,&rdquo; Paul told reporters as he stepped&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/5776169-rand-paul-mullin-confirmation-hearing-dhs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said Monday he hopes to hold a confirmation hearing next week for Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.), President Trump&rsquo;s nominee to head the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). &ldquo;We&rsquo;re shooting for a week from Wednesday,&rdquo; Paul told reporters as he stepped&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}