The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote Monday on Central Intelligence Agency Director Mike Pompeo’s secretary of state nomination, and the vote of one Democratic member could sway the panel.

Even with the committee’s minority support, its members could pass the baton to the Senate for a vote. If that happens, it would be the first time in nearly a century that a secretary of state nominee advanced without a favorable vote from the panel.

And if Pompeo is confirmed, he would become the first person to have headed both the CIA and state department and one of the most conservative secretaries of state in history.

That far-right streak in public service dates back to his 2010 election to the same congressional district in Kansas where heavyweight Republican donors’ Koch Industries is based. Pompeo supported giving Edward Snowden the death penalty after he leaked a trove of classified National Security Agency documents. In 2013, Pompeo accused American Muslim leaders of not fully denouncing terrorism, calling them “potentially complicit” in the Boston Marathon bombing. He doesn’t believe human activities caused climate change, and he supported the CIA’s use of waterboarding under the Bush administration.

His score of far-right positions may be part of why Pompeo has a reportedly excellent rapport with Trump, but their relationship also has led to concerns that the nominee can’t or won’t stand up to the president. For all intents and purposes, the administration is already treating Pompeo like he has the job, sending him on a secret trip during Easter weekend to North Korea, a visit more fitting for a secretary of state than a CIA director.

Beforehand, Pompeo’s role in the Trump administration has not been without controversy. After a White House briefing last year, Trump asked everyone to leave the room, save the national intelligence director, Daniel Coats, and Pompeo. According to the Washington Post, the president complained about the FBI’s investigation into whether the Trump campaign had coordinated with Russia during the 2016 election.

Trump wanted then-FBI Director James Comey, who he later fired, to stop investigating the former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, who went on to plead guilty to lying to the FBI. The president asked Coats and Pompeo to intervene, which the intelligence director determined an inappropriate request.

During his confirmation hearing last week, Pompeo wouldn’t say that Trump had asked them to interrupt the investigation. He said at one point that he didn’t recall what Trump asked that day, and at another: “He has never asked me to do anything that I consider remotely improper.”

In another example of his loyalty to Trump – or the appearance of loyalty – Pompeo said in October that intelligence agencies believed Russia’s interference in the 2016 election didn’t impact who won. In fact, the agencies had never reached a conclusion on that, leading Pompeo to issue a correction to his statement.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) has already said he opposes Pompeo’s nomination, so Republicans on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will have to rely on Democrats to gain the committee’s support. In a sense, that doesn’t matter, because the Senate still gets a crack at confirming Pompeo to the secretary of state position. In another sense, the committee’s vote does matter, because it’s a litmus for how well it will do in the Senate.

Here’s a list of where Senate Foreign Relations Committee members stand on Pompeo’s confirmation/nomination. I did not find public statements from Sen. Christopher Coons (D, Delaware) and Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Arizona). Their offices didn’t respond to emails seeking their positions on the matter, but previously, Coons opposed Pompeo’s CIA confirmation and Flake supported it.

Plan to vote yes: Nine members, all Republicans

• Sen. John Barrasso (R, Wyoming)
• Sen. Bob Corker (R, Tennessee)
• Sen. Cory Gardner (R, Colorado)
• Sen. Johnny Isakson (R, Georgia)
• Sen. Ron Johnson (R, Wisconsin)
• Sen. Rob Portman (R, Ohio)
• Sen. James E. Risch (R, Idaho)
• Sen. Marco Rubio (R, Florida)
• Sen. Todd Young (R, Indiana)

Plan to vote no: 10 members (Nine Democrats, one Republican)

• Sen. Cory Booker (D, New Jersey)
• Sen. Ben Cardin (D, Maryland)
• Sen. Tim Kaine (D, Virginia)
• Sen. Edward J. Markey (D, Massachusetts)
• Sen. Bob Menendez (D, New Jersey)
• Sen. Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon)
• Sen. Chris Murphy (D, Connecticut)
• Sen. Rand Paul (R, Kentucky)
• Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D, New Hampshire)
• Sen. Tom Udall (D, New Mexico)

Unknown: Two members (One Republican, one Democrat)

• Sen. Christopher Coons, opposed Pompeo’s CIA confirmation (D, Delaware)
• Sen. Jeff Flake, supported Pompeo’s CIA confirmation (R, Arizona)

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