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LIVE: Alejandro Mayorkas Senate Confirmation for Department of Homeland Security Secretary
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2:02:41Now Playing(Jan. 19) Watch live as the U.S. Senate convenes a hearing to consider the nomination of the Honorable Alejandro N. Mayorkas to be Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Monday, January 19, 2020, in Washington, D.C.
The day before his inauguration, five of President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet nominees have their confirmation hearings before Senate committees.
Janet Yellen, the former Fed chair who was picked to lead the Treasury Department, will face questioning from the Finance Committee at 10 a.m. EST. At the same time, Biden’s pick to be director of national intelligence, Avril Haines, will appear before the Intelligence Committee, and Alejandro Mayorkas, tapped for the Department of Homeland Security, will testify to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel.
Afternoon hearings on Tuesday include retired General Lloyd Austin, Biden’s choice to lead the Defense Department, and Antony Blinken, his nominee for secretary of state.
Despite hearings beginning before Wednesday’s inauguration, Biden is expected to take office with a cabinet made up largely, if not entirely, of acting secretaries. The confirmation hearings have to be followed by committee votes before the nominations go to the floor of the Senate.
Working to Biden’s advantage: the Senate will shift to Democratic control after Biden becomes president and new senators from Georgia and California are sworn in. At that point, tie breakers in the Senate, which will be divided equally between Republicans and Democrats, will be cast by Harris.
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