Senate panel advances Mullin nomination to lead DHS after testy hearing

Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-Okla.) nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday advanced out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee despite reservations from Democrats and the committee’s Republican chair. The roughly three-minute meeting was a whirlwind process after a testy hearing one day prior in which Chair Rand Paul…