BONUS INTERVIEW | Rep. Kevin Hern Stands by Previous Call to Impeach Homeland Security Secretary

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🗓️ 12 January 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

The chairman of the House’s biggest Republican caucus says he “stands by” his call for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas for allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens to cross the southern border.

Rep. Kevin Hern, R-Okla., first advocated that the House impeach Mayorkas in October, and earlier this week Rep. Pat Fallon, R-Texas, filed articles of impeachment against the homeland security secretary.

“In October of 2022, I think I was the first to formally call for him to be impeached. I stand by that,” Hern, the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, says on “The Daily Signal Podcast.”

“I actually called first for Mayorkas back in February of 2022 to resign,” the Oklahoma Republican says. “And we had a meeting with him with 40 of our Republican members at the Border Caucus meeting at the Capitol. To his credit, he showed up for the meeting [but] was very, very defiant then that there was any problem, when there’d been some two and a half million people had crossed at that time under his watch.”

“Secretary Mayorkas has been involved with the border since 2005 as the deputy homeland security director, and other immigration processes over the years from California,” Hern says. “And it is amazing to the American people, based on everything that we have seen, that he still thinks there’s control of the southern border.”

Also on this episode of “The Daily Signal Podcast,” Hern talks about the 15 ballots to elect a speaker of the House; his goals as chairman of the Republican Study Committee, the largest GOP caucus in the House; and his thoughts on the Pentagon’s lifting its COVID-19 vaccine mandate for members of the armed forces.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, Samantha Sharers here bringing you a bonus episode of the Daily Signal Podcast.
0:11.4	It's Thursday, January 12th, and joining today's show is Representative Kevin Hurn from Oklahoma.
0:18.1	As many of you know, it took 15 rounds of voting to elect House Speaker Kevin McCarthy,
0:23.5	and even in some of those leader rounds, Representative Hurn was still being nominated and voted
0:29.0	for for the position. He shares what he first thought when he was nominated, some of his goals as
0:34.6	the new chairman of the Republican Study Committee, and what he hopes the GOP investigates.
0:40.2	We'll get to my conversation with Representative Hurn right after this.
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1:44.6	Joining today's show is Representative Kevin Hurn of Oklahoma's first congressional district.
1:49.8	Congressman, thanks so much for joining us.
1:51.8	Great to be with you.
1:53.0	Now, as you and our listeners know, it took 15 rounds to elect Speaker of the House, Kevin McCarthy,
1:59.6	and even in the 12th round of voting, other members of Congress were nominating and voting for you.
2:06.6	So, first and foremost, what did you first think when your name was nominated,
2:11.0	when people were still voting for you, even in those last rounds?
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