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The House panel requested the Labor secretary's presence at a hearing later this month. But Nancy Pelosi has publicly poured cold water on the prospect of hauling in the Trump official before Congress.

"She's a living fire alarm, a warning to the rest of us that we better change our immigration system immediately, or else," Carlson said of the freshman Democrat.

Senate Democrats claim they lacked prior knowledge of the events surrounding the Acosta-Epstein case, despite published news reports and it being a topic of discussion during Acosta's confirmation hearing.

The committee seeks to compel witness testimony and documents from several high-profile Trump associates and current and former officials, including the president's son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner.

Trump's Labor secretary is facing renewed and fierce calls for his resignation due to his role in negotiating a lenient plea deal for Epstein in 2007.

"Having respect for ourselves doesn't mean we lack respect for her," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "It means we won't let everyday people be dismissed."

The nation's top law enforcement official on Monday suggested that the former special counsel did not need to comply with a congressional subpoena.

"I don't think Alexandria and her friends ... they haven't learned, they haven't been in Congress enough to understand that negotiations happen in Congress," Jose Aristimuño said.

"All these people have their public whatever and their Twitter world," Pelosi said, referring to the four freshman lawmakers. "But they didn't have any following. They're four people and that's how many votes they got."

"Colonel Jessup and all your Marines: God Bless you all," King tweeted, referring to Jack Nicholson's fictional colonel.

Republican Senator John Kennedy strongly rebuked Ocasio-Cortez's comments about migrant detention centers. "Her hypocrisy is breathtaking," he said.

He argued that legally, the "unaccompanied alien children" are not able to grant permission to be photographed or interviewed because they are minors.

"Using National Park entrance fees to pay for this display of pageantry is absolutely outrageous," Representative Betty McCollum said.

"Sometimes we lose because the people who come to you and give you lip service and say, 'Oh I'm pro-life, I'm pro-life,' and then they don't seem to vote that way," Paul told the Faith & Freedom Coalition.

"If you actually take the time to study, and to look at the steps, and to see how government transforms under authoritarian regimes, and look at the political decisions and patterns of this president, the answer is yes," she said.

"We need to shut this down, because what this is, is a warehouse for children for profit," said one Democrat who toured a Florida child migrant detention center.

On issues from reparations to impeachment, House Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee looks to the example of her mentor and predecessor, Barbara Jordan.

"Our border patrol system is broken. And part of the reason it stays broken is because it's kept secret. The American people must see what is being carried out in their name," Castro said on Twitter following the visit.

It's been 45 days since Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused a congressional subpoena to provide the president's taxes, prompting frustration from a liberal activist group.

Several current and former White House and administration officials have reportedly used private email accounts or messaging services to conduct official government business.

"I am requesting the National Rifle Association of America (NRA) make public documents that can help determine if wrongdoing by the NRA has occurred," he wrote.

"If members of Congress want to spend their time psychoanalyzing my tweets, it's certainly their prerogative," Gaetz said in a statement. "I won't be joining them in the endeavor."

Schock, who has denied frequent rumors about his sexuality, voted against marriage equality and lifting the ban on gays in the military.

"I frankly don't care what president does it," the congresswoman said, when confronted with backlash after she employed the term to describe migrant detention facilities.

"Instead of 'fiscally conservative but socially liberal,' let's call the New Democrats and Blue Dog Caucus the 'New Southern Democrats,'" Saikat Chakrabarti tweeted.

Video of the incident shows a cup tossed into the frame, although it's unclear if the drink spilled or hit the conservative lawmaker.

"The frustration is that there's no bar, there's no line in the sand that we're waiting for in order to trigger impeachment," the freshman Democrat said.

When questioning a Trump-appointee who suggested Conway be fired for ethics law violations, Republicans appeared to repeatedly misinterpret the Hatch Act.

Special counsel Robert Mueller was issued with subpoenas to appear before Congress on July 17 by the House judiciary and intelligence committees.

"This isn't oversight, this is now try-to-harass-the-president time," Hannity said, reacting to Mueller's planned July appearances in front of Congress.