The Senate Judiciary Committee grilled Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey over how they handle false and misleading claims about the election, including from President Donald Trump.
The 47-50 vote came as Sens. Mitt Romney and Susan Collins sided with Democratic senators to preserve a filibuster of Judy Shelton's confirmation. Two other Republicans missed the vote.
The all-but-spoken reason is that it is unlikely the new Congress, sworn in Jan. 3, wants to keep trying to impeach President Trump — unless he refuses to leave office.
Judy Shelton, the controversial nominee to the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, failed to advance for a vote in the Senate, delivering Republicans and the Trump administration a major setback.
After better than expected election results, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has been reelected to lead his conference in the next session of Congress. His top lieutenants were also reelected.
Foreign allies of President Trump have signaled that they are ready to cooperate with a new administration, having called President-elect Joe Biden to congratulate him on his White House win.
The president-elect called for immediate action to help borrowers who are "having to make choices between paying their student loan and paying the rent."