A U.S. Senate committee voted on Thursday to advance the nomination of Senator Markwayne Mullin to become homeland security secretary, even as the committee's Republican chairman criticized Mullin and ​voted against him.

U.S. Sen. John Fetterman on Thursday cast the deciding vote to advance President Donald Trump’s nominee to helm the Department of Homeland Security — joining Republicans while other Democrats raised doubts that U.

Fetterman cast a key vote to advance Mullin's nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday.

Donald Trump’s pick to serve as the next homeland security secretary passed a key hurdle on Thursday despite a rocky confirmation hearing. Members of the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee voted to advance Sen.

NBC News spoke to voters at a gas station in the 10th District, the type of area that will be key for Republicans to win in the midterms if they hope to retain control of the House majority.

The left’s long‑simmering anger and increasingly fraught relationship with Democratic Senator John Fetterman boiled over on Thursday, when the Pennsylvania Democrat cast the deciding vote to advance Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin’s nomination for Secretary of Homeland Security out of committee and toward a full confirmation vote.

The Senate defeated a war powers resolution on Wednesday that aimed to block President Trump from ramping up the war with Iran​, as the operation approaches a fourth week.

Hopes for a quick vote on Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s nomination as Homeland Security secretary hang on questions about secretive travel the Oklahoma Republican undertook as a House member a decade ago that are now being examined by his Senate colleagues.