Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs

Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s DHS nomination advanced out of committee in an 8-7 vote as Rand Paul opposed it and John Fetterman provided the deciding vote ahead of a full Senate vote.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reportedly blocked Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) from introducing Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) at his confirmation hearing.

During the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday, Committee Chair Rand Paul (R-KY) confronted Markwayne Mullin, who is testifying as the nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), over comments Mullin previously made regarding Paul and an assault the Kentucky senator suffered in 2017.

Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Office of Special Counsel, withdrew from consideration Tuesday after losing Republican support amid reports of racist text messages and prior harassment allegations.

A Senate report on the July 13 assassination attempt against Donald Trump revealed multiple glaring security errors made by the Secret Service.

Ranking Member Rand Paul (R-KY) and other Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee put Anthony Fauci’s ally, Dr. Robert Garry, on the hot seat during Tuesday’s coronavirus origins hearing.

The U.S. federal government is one of the main disseminators of disinformation, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said on Monday, ripping the Biden administration’s Disinformation Governance Board, which is purportedly intended to target online “misinformation.”

The number of global migrants at the border will keep rising unless President Joe Biden tightens border security, Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) told the administration’s homeland security chief during a congressional hearing.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are refusing to hold hearings on Alejandro Mayorkas, President Joe Biden’s nominee to helm the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Tony Bobulinski said he met personally with former Vice President Joe Biden for an hour to discuss “the Bidens’ family business plans with the Chinese.”

Biden falsely claimed that his son Hunter Biden did not receive $3.5 million from the former Moscow mayor’s wife Yelena Baturina.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman expects to release an interim report on his Biden-Ukraine investigation “in about a week.”

A lobbying and public relations firm tied to Hunter Biden and the Ukrainian natural gas conglomerate Burisma Holdings was the beneficiary of a coronavirus relief loan from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to authorize a subpoena related to the GOP investigation into Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings on Wednesday.

The coronavirus infection fatality rate is lower than initially predicted, perhaps similar or even lower than the seasonal flu’s 0.1 percent for some segments of the population, a couple of doctors confirmed in testimony before a Senate panel on Thursday.

FBI Director Christopher Wray must produce “all records” from the bureau’s Russia collusion investigation that evidence declassified this week revealed to be “infected by Russian disinformation,” two Republican senators wrote in a letter Thursday.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that his controversial performance would be reviewed “in due course,” once the coronavirus pandemic is over.

Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) is working to verify a document that claims a firm linked to Ukrainian company Burisma apologized for a “misinformation campaign” against the country’s former prosecutor-general, Viktor Shokin, whom Joe Biden bragged about getting fired.

Senate GOPs are likely to release a report on their probe into Burisma and the role Hunter Biden may have played in evading investigations.

The United States Senate is probing whether a lobbying firm working on the behalf of Burisma Holdings, a Ukrainian oil and gas conglomerate, leveraged the company’s ties to Hunter Biden for access to the State Department.

A bombshell report released Wednesday by the majority staff of the Senate Homeland Security Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations revealed that the Obama administration secretly plotted to give Iran access to the U.S. financial system as a sweetener for the 2015 nuclear deal. This effectively helped Iran evade sanctions that were not lifted as part of the JCPOA, as it is formally known. The report also details how Obama officials blatantly lied to Congress and the American people about this special arrangement.

The Senate Homeland Security Committee released a report in mid-January that received surprisingly little media attention despite its provocative assertion that Obamacare, and particularly its enormous expansion of Medicaid, is a driving force behind the opioid epidemic.

TEL AVIV — Reports of text messages between an FBI lawyer and a top FBI official helping to lead the agency’s probe into Hillary Clinton’s private email server may raise questions about the veracity of statements made by former FBI Director James Comey during sworn testimony regarding the timing of the Clinton email investigation.

WASHINGTON, DC — The United States is gripped by an “elevated threat” as the Christmas holiday approaches posed by homegrown violent extremists (HVEs) seeking to carry out “stray dog attacks” on behalf of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), warned a top U.S. national security official.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Iran’s narco-terrorist proxy Hezbollah is sending jihadists to Peru to prepare “for attacks,” warned the director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) during a Senate panel hearing on threats to the U.S. homeland.

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) efforts to combat chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN) threats facing Americans are “inadequate,” the department’s acting secretary told lawmakers Wednesday.

A new Senate report said recent leaks by former FBI Director James Comey’s leaking of memos could “potentially harm national security.”

Political Islam, focused on establishing an unfree society ruled by strict sharia law, is “fundamentally incompatible” with the U.S. Constitution and the overall “foundation of the American way of life,” declared Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an expert at the Hoover Institution think tank, during a Senate panel hearing.

Fatalities from the ongoing opioid epidemic gripping the United States are fueling “personnel shortages” and equipment failures within America’s “death investigation system,” a forensic doctor told lawmakers Thursday.

MS-13 is now using their growing power to threaten and extort immigrants and their businesses in America.

A report from the Department of Homeland Security stated south Texas border communities may be the first to receive sections of President Donald Trump’s planned wall.

The chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee told Breitbart News that he is very concerned about allegations that Susan Rice, President Barack Obama’s national security adviser, abused her access to intelligence reports that included incidental collection of information about associates of President Donald Trump.

The Republican majority on the Senate Homeland Security Committee published a report favorably comparing Israel’s security barriers with the existing fence on the US-Mexico border.

The president of a local chapter of the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC) is blasting Border Patrol Chief Mark Morgan after he testified before the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday.

A Yazidi woman who survived the massacre of her family and sexual enslavement by Islamic State jihadists told a Senate panel that the terrorist group’s ideology motivated the recent massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, predicting that “there will be more.”

Hillary Clinton’s lawyers have agreed to hand over online backups of her emails made through an Internet “cloud” storage system to the FBI, and the Senate Homeland Security committee has also asked to see these files.