Yesterday, the feds busted what they said was a college cheating scandal that ensnared some of the rich and famous: a couple actresses, a couple people with ties to Las Vegas and other rich folks, all, according to an indictment, paying big bucks to get their kids into some of the best schools in the country.

It’s enough to make Democrat Dina Titus’ blood boil.

“Well, I thought it was just scandalous. I think universities need to take a hard look at themselves,” the Congresswoman told me Wednesday from Washington, part of our regular conversation with our DC delegation we call “Connect to Congress.”

While she served in the State Senate, and before Congress, she taught Political Science at UNLV and saw the sacrifice many local students made to get a degree.

“You know, I had a lot of students at UNLV who were first-generation students who worked two jobs to go to college. They put a real value on that higher education, would do whatever it takes for themselves or their children to go, and then just to have somebody to be able to write a check and lie about it is just unconscionable,” Titus says.

It’s been a busy week for our delegation in Washington.

This week President Trump sent Congress his budget, which includes more than $150 million to revive Yucca Mountain, the mothballed nuke waste dump outside Las Vegas.

Our delegation promises a fight.

“(House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi has been a good ally for us to fight this and we'll certainly do it again,” says Titus, while our DC lawmakers have introduced something called the Nuclear Waste Informed Consent Act.

“It says you have to have the consent of the affected areas, the localities, the Native Americans and the state where it's going to go,” Titus tells me.

Tuesday in the U.S. House, Democrats, in the majority, proposed legislation that would offer some immigrants and young people brought here as children or teenagers, the “Dreamers,” a pathway to citizenship.

It now heads to the Republican-controlled U.S. Senate.

“I hope that they see it on the Senate side as a non-partisan issue, just like they did comprehensive immigration reform several sessions ago,” Titus says.