Alabama's U.S. Senators, Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions, on Thursday joined 41 other senators to oppose the nomination of Loretta E. Lynch as U.S. Attorney General.

Lynch was confirmed 56-43 with 10 Republican senators voting for her nomination.

The Washington Post reported that during questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee in late January, Lynch said she believed Obama's executive actions on immigration last year passed legal and constitutional muster, angering Republicans who considered them an overreach.

"Ms. Lynch has said flat-out that she supports those policies and is committed to defending them in court," Sessions said Thursday. "So I think Congress has a real role here. We do not have to confirm someone to the highest law enforcement position in America if that someone is publicly committed to denigrating Congress."

Lynch is expected to be sworn in as the nation's 83rd attorney general on Monday and will become the first African American woman attorney general. She replaces a controversial and divisive Eric Holder Jr., who resigned.

Obama nominated Lynch to replace Holder in November but the Senate, then under Democratic control, did not act on the nomination.

Representative Bradley Byrne, R-Mobile, is sponsoring legislation requiring Congress to renew each government agency every 10 years, rather than allowing agencies to operate in perpetuity without having to justify their existence, Yellowhammer reported.

Called "sunsetting," Byrne's bill would require agencies such as the IRS, the Food and Drug Administration, and even lesser known agencies such as the Agricultural Marketing Service and the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, to justify their existence.

"It forces them to look at it hard," Byrne said. "I think we need that in Washington."

The Sunset Inefficient and Unaccountable Government Act, or the Sunset Act, would require more than 275 government departments, agencies, and boards to be reviewed and renewed once every 10 years. Departments and agencies essential to national security would be exempt.

Byrne said he is rounding up support for the bill. "I think that's a healthy thing for the government to do, and I anticipate we'll get some pretty good support on it," he said.

As reported by the Washington Post, the model for the iconic World War II image of America's manufacturing might and diversity has died.

Mary Doyle Keefe in 1943 was a 19-year-old telephone operator when her artist neighbor Norman Rockwell asked if he would draw her in a patriotic scene that forever became known as "Rosie the Riveter." Her image graced a Saturday Evening Post cover that year and "became a symbol for millions of American women who went to work during World War II," according to the Norman Rockwell Museum.

Keefe died in Connecticut this week after a brief illness at age 92. Her likeness was immortalized as a symbol of female independence and industrial might during the days in World War II when American fortunes were starting to turn.

Rockwell used Keefe's image and the style of a Sistine Chapel image to present Rosie as a durable, dependable, and independent woman who was upholding the home front while men were away fighting. Rockwell painted from photographs of Keefe.

The idealized image of "Rosie" included a rivet gun on her lap, a sandwich in hand, and Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf" under her feet. Her lunchbox said, "Rosie." A popular wartime song, "Rosie the Riveter" was instantly attached to the famous magazine cover. The image was used to sell war bonds.