Senate Homeland Security postpones business meeting to consider Cairncross, Plankey nominations

The Senate Homeland Security Committee has postponed a June 12 business meeting where the panel was expected to take up the nominations of Sean Cairncross for national cyber director and Sean Plankey to serve as director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

The panel held a June 5 confirmation hearing for Cairncross, along with Robert Law, nominee for DHS Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans; James Percival for DHS general counsel; and Kevin Rhodes to take the...