The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted Wednesday to advance President Joe Biden’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel amid GOP concerns over the person’s connections to Hunter Biden.
The committee voted 6-4 to advance Hampton Dellinger’s nomination to serve as OSC’s special counsel, with several members absent from the vote. All Democrats in attendance voted in favor of Dellinger’s nomination, while every present Republican voted against it.
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Dellinger is a longtime Boies Schiller Flexner attorney whose team took on Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company that Hunter Biden served on the board of, as a client at the latter’s request in 2014.
President Biden nominated Dellinger to the OSC job in October, more than two years after selecting him to serve as assistant attorney general…
