Paul chose it over leading HELP, a Senate committee on health, education and labor. One of the committee’s first tasks: the confirmation hearing for Trump’s nomination to head the Department of Homeland Security,

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, announced he will serve as chairman for the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

In a letter to his colleagues, Paul says the committee's "mission of oversight and investigations is critical to Congress reasserting itself."