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Lickety Split, Senate Panel Advances Wolf Nomination As DHS Secretary

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 30th, 2020

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Lickety Split, Senate Panel Advances Wolf Nomination As DHS Secretary

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf. Photo: DHS

Taking about two minutes from open to close, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday morning along partisan lines approved the nomination of Chad Wolf to become the Trump administration’s Homeland Security Secretary, advancing the nomination to the Senate. Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) opened the meeting expressing his support for Wolf, who is currently the Acting Secretary of Department of Homeland Security, saying he’s “done a pretty good job based on all the things that he…

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