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By Tom Williams

Posted March 18, 2026 at 3:55pm

Chairman Rand Paul, left, appears on a monitor in the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing room in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Wednesday as he listens to Sen. Markwayne Mullin, nominee to be Homeland Security secretary, during the Oklahoma Republican’s confirmation hearing.

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