{"id":20190,"date":"2026-03-18T14:46:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mullin-markup-still-on\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T14:46:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T14:46:50","slug":"mullin-markup-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mullin-markup-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullin markup still on"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A committee vote on Sen. Markwayne Mullin&#8217;s confirmation as Homeland Security secretary remains on track for Thursday despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/03\/18\/paul-challenges-mullin-over-assault-comments-during-dhs-grilling-00833659\" target=\"_blank\">fiery sparring session Wednesday<\/a> between the Oklahoma Republican and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the chair of the panel that must approve his nomination.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Paul said after the tense exchange \u2014 during which Mullin refused to apologize for comments saying he &#8220;understood&#8221; why Paul was violently assaulted in 2017 \u2014 that the committee vote &#8220;is on for tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Paul has wide latitude to schedule action on Mullin&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A committee vote on Sen. Markwayne Mullin&#8217;s confirmation as Homeland Security secretary remains on track for Thursday despite a fiery sparring session Wednesday between the Oklahoma Republican and Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, the chair of the panel that must approve his nomination. A spokesperson for Paul said after the tense exchange \u2014 during which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190","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=20190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}