The House Homeland Security Committee approved two articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in the early morning hours on Wednesday, clearing a major hurdle that tees up a floor vote as soon as next week.

In a daylong markup hearing that stretched past midnight, lawmakers voted along party lines to move ahead with impeaching Mayorkas for his handling of the southern border crisis. A majority vote of the full chamber would make him the first Cabinet official to be impeached since 1876.