{"id":1800351,"date":"2023-01-09T17:04:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800351"},"modified":"2023-01-09T17:05:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T22:05:16","slug":"mark-green-edges-out-dan-crenshaw-to-lead-homeland-security-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mark-green-edges-out-dan-crenshaw-to-lead-homeland-security-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Green Edges Out Dan Crenshaw To Lead Homeland Security Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmark-green-edges-out-dan-crenshaw-to-lead-homeland-security-panel%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1800351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) beat out Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) to become chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and pledged to prioritize America\u2019s southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Green was chosen by the House Republican Steering Committee to fill this role. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thehill\/status\/1612539247482773517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tuesday vote for leadership positions<\/a> in the first week following Rep. Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) rise to the speakership.<\/p>\n<p>Green declared that he had secured the gavel. \u201cending the border crisis President Biden created is our top priority.\u201d Green also stated to reporters that he would send staff members to the U.S. Mexico border, where they can provide assistance. \u201creal-time updates\u201d from Customs and Border Protection,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/minutes\/congress\/01-9-2023\/homeland-goes-to-green\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to POLITICO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I am grateful <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpeakerMcCarthy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SpeakerMcCarthy<\/a> and the House Republican Steering Committee for entrusting me with this task; it&#8217;s time to get to work and fulfill our Commitment to America! \/2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VFLYcxDNIm\">pic.twitter.com\/VFLYcxDNIm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Mark Green (@RepMarkGreen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepMarkGreen\/status\/1612521732845232148?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillepost.com\/green-elected-president-of-republican-freshman-class\/article_db3c055d-4b4f-512b-8775-a22eb8c29eda.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First elected in 2018<\/a> and a member of the House Freedom Caucus, Green replaces Rep. John Katko (R-NY) as the top Republican member of the Homeland Security Committee after Katko did not seek re-election in the 2022 midterm cycle. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) <a href=\"https:\/\/homeland.house.gov\/about\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chaired the panel<\/a> during the last session of Congress while he also led the January 6 Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Green faced Crenshaw, a fellow combat veteran, in the contest to become the next chairman after the Republicans won control of the House last year. Crenshaw issued an apology on Sunday for referring to some of his GOP colleagues as \u201cterrorists\u201d during negotiations that led to the election of McCarthy as House speaker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the extent that I have colleagues that were offended by it, I sincerely apologize to them. I don\u2019t want them to think I actually believe they\u2019re terrorists. It\u2019s clearly a turn of phrase that you use in an intransigent negotiation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dan-crenshaw-walks-back-terrorist-comment-against-gop-house-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crenshaw told CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Green tagged Crenshaw on Twitter, crediting him for running a \u201cspirited race\u201d for the homeland security panel chairmanship. \u201cI\u2019m grateful for his friendship and leadership. I look forward to working with him, a fellow veteran who understands our national security challenges, to secure our homeland,\u201d Green added.<\/p>\n<p>Green also said he is \u201cgrateful\u201d to McCarthy and the House Republican Steering Committee \u201cfor entrusting me with this task; it\u2019s time to get to work and fulfill our Commitment to America!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) beat out Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) to become chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and pledged to prioritize America\u2019s southern border. The House Republican Steering Committee selected Green for the role as it held votes for leadership positions Monday in the first week following Rep. Kevin McCarthy\u2019s (R-CA) rise to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1800354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5242,6202,7020,8093,5812,4571,6961,5200,8636,3646,6195],"class_list":["post-1800351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-crenshaw","tag-daily","tag-dan","tag-edges","tag-green","tag-homeland","tag-lead","tag-mark","tag-panel","tag-security","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1800354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}