WASHINGTON (CN) — If prospective Homeland Security leader Markwayne Mullin was expecting a breezy confirmation hearing in a Republican-led Senate committee, he was quickly proven wrong Wednesday morning as the Oklahoma senator faced sharp criticism from the panel’s GOP chairman whom he had personally slighted.
Mullin, tapped by President Donald Trump earlier this month to take over the Department of Homeland Security, appeared before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee for a milestone hearing in which he hoped to secure the support of his colleagues to replace outgoing Secretary Kristi Noem.
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