00:00Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the
00:04confirmation vote for Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to be the Secretary of Homeland
00:08Security right now. Is that objection? The question occurs on a nomination. Is
00:16there a sufficient second? There appears to be. The clerk will call the roll.
00:20Ms. Alsobrooks, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Banks, Mr. Barrasso, Mr. Bennett, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr.
00:27Blumenthal, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Booker, Mr. Bozeman, Mrs. Britt, Ms. Hassan, Mr.
00:35Hawley, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Hickenlooper, Mr. Rono, Mr. Hoven, Mr. Husted, Mrs. Hyde-Smith,
00:43Mr. Moran, Mr. Moran, aye. Mrs. Blackburn, Mrs. Blackburn, aye. Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schiff,
00:55no. Mr. Kim, Mr. Kim, no. Mrs. Capito, Mrs. Capito, aye.
01:07On this vote, the ayes are 54, the nays are 45. The nomination of Mark Wayne Mullen of
01:13Oklahoma to be Secretary of Homeland Security is confirmed.
01:24Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made late upon the table. The
01:28President will be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
01:31I will never forget, multiple years ago, my wife, Mark Wayne and his wife, Christy, the
01:38four of us sitting down for a dinner in a quiet place in a booth in the middle of a
01:43restaurant
01:45just to talk. Because Mark Wayne was thinking about saying I'm done with all of this chaos that's in
01:54Congress. And he was actually praying through what to do next. And it was over that dinner that the four
02:01of us just talked and visited, prayed together, and he determined I'm going to stay at it,
02:08because there's more work to be done. And I'm glad he did. In the days ahead, the nation will be
02:16glad
02:16that he did. Because I think he'll make a fantastic Secretary of Homeland Security.
