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Senate Committee, Again, Approves DHS Management Nominee Deyo

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, January 22nd, 2015

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Senate Committee, Again, Approves DHS Management Nominee Deyo

Russell Deyo. Photo: Thurgood Marshall College Fund

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday approved by voice vote Russell Deyo to be the next undersecretary of management at the Department of Homeland Security.The panel in November also approved Deyo for the same position but the Senate never took up the nomination, forcing the committee to vote again in the new Congress that began this year. Deyo, who was nominated by President Barack Obama in August 2014, was previously with the pharmaceutical company Johnson &…

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