Democrats Seek to Delay or Stop Mayorkas Impeachment Markup Hearing

Republicans insist President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Homeland Security has willfully refused to enforce the laws Congress intended to keep the border safe.

(L-R) Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security Rep. Mark Green (R-Tenn.), and Ranking Member Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) meet with other lawmakers to mark up articles of impeachment against Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Alejandro Mayorkas in Washington on Jan. 30, 2024. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

Republicans on the House Committee on Homeland Security defeated a Democrat motion to adjourn a markup hearing shortly after it began on Articles of Impeachment of Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on a straight party-line vote of 18–14 in the opening move on Tuesday of what is expected to be a hard-fought and lengthy hearing.

That motion, made by Ranking Member Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), was followed by another motion from him to dispense with the reading of H. Res. 863, “Impeaching Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The complete text can be read here.