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CQ News Morning Headlines - May 18, 2016

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RULES ALLOWS ANOTHER 120 AMENDMENTS TO DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION	
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday reported out a second rule providing for consideration of an additional 120 amendments to the fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization measure (HR 4909), which is expected to be completed on the floor Wednesday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4890333?srcpage=cqnamt

LATEST PLAN FOR HOUSE BUDGET RESOLUTION FALTERS	
An attempt to win support for a fiscal 2017 budget resolution in the House appears to have again fallen flat, even after Republican leaders offered an innovative measure that would condition a controversial $1.07 trillion discretionary topline on billions of dollars in spending cuts being signed into law.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889750?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE APPROPRIATORS OK DEFENSE BILL WITH END DATE ON WAR CASH	
The House Appropriations Committee approved by voice vote Tuesday a $575.8 billion Defense spending bill for fiscal 2017.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889588?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE TRANSPORTATION-HUD BILL TEXT RELEASED BY APPROPRIATORS	
House appropriators Tuesday unveiled a $58.2 billion spending bill for transportation and housing programs that differs from the Senate proposal by funding Section 8 and public housing funds by about $500 million less, but includes similar policy language on truck driver rest requirements.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889566?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE RULES ADVANCES MILITARY CONSTRUCTION-VA SPENDING BILL	
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday approved on voice vote a modified open rule for the Military Construction-VA appropriations bill and cleared the way for the chamber's first spending bill to head to the floor on Wednesday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889970?srcpage=cqnamt

SENATORS TANGLE OVER GUN RIGHTS IN MILITARY CONSTRUCTION-VA BILL	
Gun rights could barrel their way into the Senate's Military Construction-VA appropriations bill, given rumblings over an amendment from a top Republican Tuesday that triggered an objection from one of the Senate's top Democrats.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889591?srcpage=cqnamt

AGRICULTURE APPROPRIATIONS BILL FUNDS CUBA POST, VETERANS PLAN	
The Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee on Tuesday approved a fiscal 2017 spending bill that increases funding for agricultural research, funds an Agriculture Department post in Cuba and puts money into programs for military veterans interested in agriculture.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889953?srcpage=cqnamt

ZIKA EMERGENCY PLAN MOVES FORWARD IN SENATE AT $1.1 BILLION	
Senators are one step closer to appropriating $1.1 billion in emergency funding to combat the Zika virus, after lawmakers agreed to take a procedural step forward on a bipartisan aid package from Sens. Roy Blunt and Patty Murray.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889832?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE RULES APPROVES BILL ALLOCATING $622 MILLION TO FIGHT ZIKA	
The House Rules Committee on Tuesday prepared a Zika response measure for House floor action this week, but the legislation already faces a presidential veto threat.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889666?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE COMMERCE-JUSTICE-SCIENCE BILL INCLUDES OPIOIDS FUNDING	
House appropriators released on Tuesday the text of a fiscal 2017 Commerce-Justice-Science bill that would provide $56 billion in discretionary funding, which is $279 million above the fiscal 2016 enacted level and $1.4 billion above President Barack Obama's request.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889462?srcpage=cqnamt

LAWMAKERS WOULD BOOST OFFICE FUNDS IN LEGISLATIVE BRANCH BILL	
The House Appropriations Committee approved by voice vote Tuesday a $3.5 billion legislative branch spending bill for fiscal 2017 with an amendment that could mean raises for some House staff.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889794?srcpage=cqnamt

LEVIN EXTENDS FIGHT AGAINST CORPORATE TAX INVERSIONS	
Rep. Sander M. Levin is stepping up his attack on companies that move abroad to reduce their tax bill by introducing legislation that would limit the benefits of moving abroad and prevent foreign rivals from buying U.S. companies that keep cash overseas.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889879?srcpage=cqnamt

OVERTIME RULE TO AFFECT FEWER WORKERS THAN INITIALLY PLANNED	
The Labor Department will issue a highly anticipated overtime pay rule on Wednesday that will affect about 16 percent fewer workers than it initially proposed.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4890009?srcpage=cqnamt

BILL ALLOWING LAWSUITS FOR TERRORIST ATTACKS PASSES SENATE	
Families of the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks moved one step closer Tuesday to being able to sue the government of Saudi Arabia.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889869?srcpage=cqnamt

MEDICAID PLANS SUCCEED IN OBAMACARE EXCHANGE AS OTHERS STRUGGLE	
Smaller insurers with experience in Medicaid, such as Centene Corp. and Molina Healthcare, are outperforming the broader insurance industry on the federal health exchanges. Their success is putting a spotlight on their business model as the Obama administration and other insurers seek to stabilize the fledgling individual market.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889471?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE ADOPTS LANGUAGE TO SHRINK SIZE OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL	
The House concluded the first day of debate on the fiscal 2017 defense authorization bill Tuesday evening, approving by voice vote an amendment from Armed Services Chairman Mac Thornberry intended to boost congressional oversight of the National Security Council.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889592?srcpage=cqnamt

LANKFORD DEMANDS JUSTIFICATION FOR U.S. TRANSGENDER LETTER	
Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., is demanding Education Department officials justify their decision to advise states and school districts to allow transgender students to use public school bathrooms consistent with their gender identity, continuing a national debate over whether transgendered people should be allowed to choose which restrooms to use.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889920?srcpage=cqnamt

PARTISAN FIGHT SET OVER CHANGES TO CHILD NUTRITION BILL	
Republicans and Democrats are expected to spar Wednesday over a child nutrition reauthorization bill that would rewrite and possibly weaken nutrition policies championed by the Obama administration and signed into law in 2010.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889844?srcpage=cqnamt

CONSENSUS GROWING FOR WESTERN DROUGHT RELIEF PACKAGE	
Senate lawmakers are considering several water bills that are likely to become a legislative package to address the lingering Western drought, some of which need to overcome concerns about balancing access to water with environmental protections.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889858?srcpage=cqnamt

TOP HOUSE DEMOCRATIC NEGOTIATORS DISAVOW TOXIC SUBSTANCES DRAFT	
The top House Democrats negotiating a House-Senate compromise on an overhaul of the law that authorizes the EPA to regulate industrial chemicals said Tuesday they have abandoned support for the latest draft because "it would be better for us to not act at all than to pass the deal."
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889914?srcpage=cqnamt

CALIFORNIA ADVOCATES PUSH HEALTH CARE FOR UNDOCUMENTED ADULTS	
Undocumented immigrant children gained health coverage this week through California's Medicaid program. Emboldened advocates are now aiming to get their parents covered, too.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889831?srcpage=cqnamt

AMENDMENT ON HUD SPENDING BILL WOULD DEFUND FAIR HOUSING RULE	
Senate Republicans are taking another run at defunding a Housing and Urban Development rule that aims to assist local housing agencies in measuring and addressing racial discrimination.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889683?srcpage=cqnamt

CONGRESS CONSIDERS SYNTHETIC DRUG THREAT	
Congress is looking at what the Drug Enforcement Administration calls its next growing challenge: synthetic drugs. Even though synthetic drugs like fentanyl were responsible in 2014 for twice as many overdose deaths as the year before, many synthetic drugs are made in a way that can allow them to escape legal scrutiny.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889726?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE REJECTS PERMIT-EASING BILL, EVEN WITH ZIKA IN TITLE	
A renamed House bill that Republicans said would combat the Zika virus by easing permitting restrictions, but which Democrats said had more to do with erasing environmental regulations, was defeated Tuesday, falling short, 269-159, of the two-thirds majority it needed to pass under suspension of the rules.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889704?srcpage=cqnamt

ONE FIFTH OF VEHICLE TITLE BORROWERS LOSE CAR, REGULATOR FINDS	
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said one in five people lose their vehicle when using them as collateral for short-term, vehicle title loans.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4889931?srcpage=cqnamt

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