Today’s Agenda: The Background Check Is Here

WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 04: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (C) is surrounded by staff and security as he heads for a secure meeting space inside the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center so to revi... WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 04: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (C) is surrounded by staff and security as he heads for a secure meeting space inside the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center so to review the FBI report about alleged sexual assaults by Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh October 04, 2018 in Washington, DC. Kavanaugh's confirmation process was halted for less than a week so that FBI investigators could look into allegations by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, a California professor who who has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MORE LESS

October 4, 2018 9:58 a.m.

Senators are moving in and out of a sensitive compartmented information facility in the basement of the Senate, reviewing the FBI’s expanded background check on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Here’s more on that and on other stories we’re following.

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