Senator Lindsey Graham is preparing to invite former special counsel Robert Mueller to testify before a Senate panel about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Mr Graham of South Carolina is chairman of the Senate judiciary committee.
He tweeted earlier that he would grant a 2019 request by Democrats on the panel for Mr Mueller to appear.
Mr Graham has been hinting at the move for some time as a way to grill Mr Mueller about the origins of the Russian investigation and what many Republicans regard as bias against US President Donald Trump by law enforcement agencies.
Two days earlier Mr Graham described the Mueller investigation as “biased and corrupt".
He finally acted after the publication on Saturday of an opinion piece in The Washington Post, in which Mr Mueller defended his work against "broad claims that our investigation was illegitimate and our motives were improper".
Mr Mueller wrote that former campaign aide Roger Stone, whose sentence was commuted by Mr Trump on Friday, “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so".
The comments were a rarity since Mr Mueller was chosen to oversee the Russia probe in 2017, and departed as special counsel in 2019 after the investigation was complete.
“Apparently Mr Mueller is willing and also capable of defending the Mueller investigation,” Mr Graham, who is up for re-election this year, tweeted on Sunday.
On Friday he tweeted that Mr Trump was justified in commuting Stone’s 40-month prison sentence, and that “over time we learn how biased and corrupt Crossfire Hurricane and the Mueller probes were".
Crossfire Hurricane was the code name for the investigation by the FBI in 2016 and 2017 into links between Russia and Trump associates.
Democrats on the Senate judiciary panel wrote to Mr Graham in May 2019 asking for Mr Mueller to testify on his report.
g there were “at least 60 unanswered questions” they hoped the former FBI director could address.
One in four Americans don't plan to retire
Nearly a quarter of Americans say they never plan to retire, according to a poll that suggests a disconnection between individuals' retirement plans and the realities of ageing in the workforce.
Experts say illness, injury, layoffs and caregiving responsibilities often force older workers to leave their jobs sooner than they'd like.
According to the poll from The Associated Press-NORC Centre for Public Affairs Research, 23 per cent of workers, including nearly two in 10 of those over 50, don't expect to stop working. Roughly another quarter of Americans say they will continue working beyond their 65th birthday.
According to government data, about one in five people 65 and older was working or actively looking for a job in June. The study surveyed 1,423 adults in February this year.
For many, money has a lot to do with the decision to keep working.
"The average retirement age that we see in the data has gone up a little bit, but it hasn't gone up that much," says Anqi Chen, assistant director of savings research at the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College. "So people have to live in retirement much longer, and they may not have enough assets to support themselves in retirement."
When asked how financially comfortable they feel about retirement, 14 per cent of Americans under the age of 50 and 29 per cent over 50 say they feel extremely or very prepared, according to the poll. About another four in 10 older adults say they do feel somewhat prepared, while just about one-third feel unprepared.
"One of the things about thinking about never retiring is that you didn't save a whole lot of money," says Ronni Bennett, 78, who was pushed out of her job as a New York City-based website editor at 63.
She searched for work in the immediate aftermath of her layoff, a process she describes as akin to "banging my head against a wall." Finding Manhattan too expensive without a steady stream of income, she eventually moved to Portland, Maine. A few years later, she moved again, to Lake Oswego, Oregon. "Sometimes I fantasise that if I win the lottery, I'd go back to New York," says Ms Bennett.
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Global state-owned investor ranking by size
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China
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Japan
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Norway
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Canada
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