Lawmakers on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees faced off over an overhaul of the government's top spying tool on Tuesday, a day before the House is expected to vote on it.
Another group of Republican-led states is suing to block the Biden administration's new student loan repayment plan, which offers a faster path to cancellation and has already been used to forgive loans for more than 150,000 borrowers.
The Justice Department's pandemic fraud task force has recovered just $1.4 billion in money seized or forfeited from people who stole the government's coronavirus cash, just a fraction of 1% of the total lost to theft.
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday said the articles of impeachment against Homeland Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will not be delivered to the Senate until next week, a move meant to build pressure on Democrats to hold a full trial.
Republicans are scrambling to change Nebraska's electoral voting system to prevent a scenario in which President Biden beats former President Donald Trump in November by way of the state's Democrat-leaning Omaha district.