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CQ News Morning Headlines - April 29, 2016

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HOUSE REPUBLICANS TO GATHER FOR PRE-RECESS BUDGET HUDDLE	
House Budget Chairman Tom Price and Republican leadership plan to meet with party members Friday morning to, once again, discuss the budget impasse.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879406?srcpage=cqnamt

AFTER SECOND ENERGY-WATER VOTE FALLS SHORT, SENATE TO TRY AGAIN	
The Senate will try for a third time to end debate on its Energy-Water bill when it returns from recess May 9, after a second vote by the chamber fell short Thursday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879184?srcpage=cqnamt

SENATE LEADERS SPAR OVER BLAME FOR APPROPRIATIONS BREAKDOWN	
Senate leaders exchanged a war of words Thursday morning over the now-stalled appropriations process, hours before Thursday's 2 p.m. repeat vote to try to wrap up work on the Energy-Water appropriations bill. That second attempt failed like the first as both sides dug in their heels in a dispute over how to deal with amendments to spending bills.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879065?srcpage=cqnamt

EXCLUSIVE: MILITARY BIO LABS PUT PUBLIC HEALTH AT RISK, AUDIT FINDS	
&#x200B;Mismanagement of the Defense Department labs that handle dangerous biological pathogens has put the public health at risk, the Pentagon's inspector general said in a new report http://www.cq.com/doc/?docid=4879254.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879257?srcpage=cqnamt

WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT, WITH FLINT AID, ADVANCES	
A water infrastructure reauthorization bill that provides assistance to Flint, Mich. and other cities with excess lead levels in their drinking water systems was advanced, 19-1, by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Thursday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4878950?srcpage=cqnamt

SENATE REPUBLICANS BLOCK ZIKA PACKAGE, BUT SAY TALKS CONTINUE	
Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked a Democratic attempt to take up a $1.9 billion funding package to address the Zika virus, maintaining that appropriators' work on a compromise measure was continuing behind the scenes.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879100?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE INTELLIGENCE POLICY BILL PREPPED FOR MARKUP	
The House Intelligence Committee introduced its fiscal 2017 intelligence policy bill this week, and is expected to mark up the legislation on Friday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879238?srcpage=cqnamt

SENATE PASSES FISCAL 2016 STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZATION BILL	
The Senate passed by unanimous consent Thursday evening fiscal 2016 legislation that would reauthorize a number of State Department activities and update embassy security policies, hours after the Foreign Relations Committee advanced a fiscal 2017 bill that tackles other Foggy Bottom functions that have gone without review for years.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879216?srcpage=cqnamt

AIR FORCE WEAK ON CYBERSECURITY NEEDS FOR WEAPONS, GENERAL SAYS	
The U.S. Air Force has been slow to understand how weak cybersecurity can affect its fleet of airplanes and other weapons, Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski, the service's official responsible for developing new weapons, said Thursday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879129?srcpage=cqnamt

PANEL ADVANCES BILLS WIDENING PUBLIC REVIEW OF FCC ACTIONS	
A House panel advanced several bills Thursday that would subject the Federal Communications Commission's proposals and actions to more public scrutiny, sparking a heated debate along party lines over whether the measures would create an endless comment cycle and slow down the agency's work.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4878943?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE COMPLETES MARKUPS ON OPIOID BILLS	
The House Energy and Commerce Committee on Thursday marked up three bills to address the prescription drug abuse and heroin epidemic, wrapping up the committee's consideration of opioid-related bills.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879130?srcpage=cqnamt

TOP IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL DEFENDS RELEASE OF CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS	
&#x200B;The Obama administration's top immigration enforcement official Thursday defended her agency's policies on deciding whether to release or detain unauthorized immigrants with criminal convictions during a high-octane hearing featuring the parents of Americans killed by foreigners unlawfully in the United States.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879098?srcpage=cqnamt

GOV. HALEY: GITMO PRISONERS WOULD DESTROY S.C. ECONOMY	
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley told a House subcommittee Thursday that if the Pentagon transferred detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to a Navy prison in Charleston, it would raise the threat level, destroy the city's tourism industry and weaken prospects for economic investment in the state.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879104?srcpage=cqnamt

MORE SUPPORT FOR SENATE SENTENCING BILL, BUT HURDLES REMAIN	
The senators who back a bipartisan bill to overhaul the nation's sentencing laws said Thursday that they've gained enough support to pass it -- but they still can't say whether the legislation will make it to the Senate floor this year.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879357?srcpage=cqnamt

OBAMA PICKS UP PACE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL NOMINATIONS	
President Barack Obama is moving to fill vacant inspector general positions at federal agencies, though the watchdogs would only spend a short time overseeing his administration.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4879090?srcpage=cqnamt

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