{"id":20250,"date":"2026-03-19T14:01:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mullins-nomination-to-be-dhs-chief-advances-out-of-committee\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T14:01:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T14:01:41","slug":"mullins-nomination-to-be-dhs-chief-advances-out-of-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/mullins-nomination-to-be-dhs-chief-advances-out-of-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Mullin\u2019s nomination to be DHS chief advances out of committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted Thursday to advance Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/198817\" data-person-id=\"198817\">Markwayne Mullin<\/a>\u2019s nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary, after the Oklahoma lawmaker clashed with committee Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/151828\" data-person-id=\"151828\">Rand Paul<\/a> in a surprisingly tense Wednesday confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The vote fell mostly along party lines, with a notable vote swap. Paul, a Kentucky Republican, voted against advancing Mullin\u2019s nomination. Paul took Mullin to task Wednesday over past disparaging comments Mullin made against him and the nature of \u201cspecial missions\u201d he claimed to have taken as a member of the House.<\/p>\n<p>All but one Democrat \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/317327\" data-person-id=\"317327\">John Fetterman<\/a> of Pennsylvania \u2014 voted against advancing Mullin\u2019s nomination.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted Thursday to advance Sen. Markwayne Mullin\u2019s nomination to be the next Homeland Security secretary, after the Oklahoma lawmaker clashed with committee Chair Rand Paul in a surprisingly tense Wednesday confirmation hearing. The vote fell mostly along party lines, with a notable vote swap. Paul, a Kentucky Republican, voted against [&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-20250","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\/20250","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=20250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}