U.S. House Republicans unveil agenda ahead of Nov. 8 elections

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives rolled out an agenda on Friday aimed at tackling a range of priorities from inflation and crime to election accountability, which they hope will give them the upper hand against Democrats in the Nov. 8 midterm elections.

The agenda, called the "Commitment to America," claims to show voters how Republicans would address problems they blame on President Joe Biden and the Democrats, should they succeed in winning the House majority.

Elements of the plan, which lawmakers spent months crafting, began to appear online on Thursday.

Much of the agenda entailed policy objectives such as curbing wasteful spending, supporting U.S. troops, putting parents in charge of their children's education, protecting the unborn, and preserving women's sports for those whose gender assigned at birth was female.

On the issue of crime, the agenda aims to put 200,000 more police on the streets by providing federal funding for recruitment and retention bonuses.

The agenda also pledged a host of investigations on issues including fentanyl addiction, COVID-19's origins, Big Tech "censorship," the U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal, "politicization" of the Justice Department and the border crisis.