On Capitol Hill, lawmakers are returning today for a short session before they take another break to campaign for the mid-term elections. Both the House and Senate are scheduled to mark up bills this week that would retroactively legitimize President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is also scheduled to vote on Thursday on the confirmation of John Bolton to become the US ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton was given a recess appointment to the post last year. And the New York Times reports that Republican lawmakers are planning to abandon plans to push forward an overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws. During the last Congressional session, the House passed what was described as the most repressive immigration bill in 70 years. House bill 4437 would have made, among other things, every undocumented immigrant a felon and made it a crime for priests, nuns, health care workers and other social workers to offer help to undocumented immigrants.