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[5] [6] Mayorkas was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 56–43 vote. [7] This made Mayorkas's appointment one of the most contested of all Biden's cabinet nominees. [8] In August 2021, Congressman Andy Biggs introduced a resolution to impeach Mayorkas. It was referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary and saw no further action. [9]
Mayorkas, who did not appear to testify before the impeachment proceedings, put the border crisis squarely on Congress for failing to update immigration laws during a time of global migration.
The House of Representatives, by an extremely narrow margin, voted Tuesday to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, the first Cabinet secretary to be impeached in almost 150 years.
The House vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas failed Tuesday evening, a stunning blow to House Republicans who had pushed the effort as a key political goal.
House impeachment managers previewed some of their arguments at a hearing with Mayorkas on Tuesday morning about President Joe Biden's budget request for the department. Tennessee Rep. Mark Green, the chairman of the House Homeland Security panel, told the secretary that he has a duty under the law to control and guard U.S. borders, and ...
House Republicans have failed to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.. Four Republicans joined all of the Democrats in voting down the impeachment effort, with the final ...
If the House does vote to impeach Mayorkas, the charges would next go to the Democratic-controlled Senate, which would conduct an impeachment trial. No Cabinet official has been impeached in ...
Following the House vote to impeach Alejandro Mayorkas, Scripps News learned that the Senate's impeachment trial will begin Feb. 26.