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CQ News Morning Headlines - May 2, 2016

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HOUSE REPUBLICANS ASSEMBLE SPENDING CUTS, MULL BUDGET VOTE	
A legislative package that would cut $30 billion in mandatory program spending has been put together and is ready to go should House Republican leaders get the votes to adopt a fiscal 2017 budget resolution when they return from recess.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880337?srcpage=cqnamt

BY MISSING PAYMENT MONDAY, PUERTO RICO MAY FOCUS CONGRESS	
The man responsible for shepherding a bill through Congress that seeks to rescue Puerto Rico from its $72 billion debt crisis has repeatedly said that it might take a default by the U.S. territory, and the uncertainty that flows from it, to focus Congress' attention on the now-stalled legislation.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880291?srcpage=cqnamt

WHITE HOUSE MIGHT BACK OFFSETS FOR ZIKA FUNDING PACKAGE	
The White House said Friday it might support an emergency Zika funding package with some or all of the cost offset by other budget cuts, an idea that so far hasn't gained any traction among congressional Democrats.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880326?srcpage=cqnamt

HOW ZIKA COULD BITE THE GOP	
It could take just one pesky mosquito bite to put the public against Senate Republicans.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880301?srcpage=cqnamt

LAWMAKERS JOIN EX-FACEBOOK CHIEF TO HELP DISTRESSED AREAS	
Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Ohio, and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., are leading a bipartisan coalition to promote a new deferral of taxes on capital gains that are reinvested in opportunity zones located in economically distressed communities.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880322?srcpage=cqnamt

CANCER GROUP SEEKS APPROPRIATIONS RIDER IN DRUG PAYMENT FIGHT	
The biggest national organization of cancer specialists is looking at appropriations bills for a potential vehicle to stop a proposed Medicare test program, which would change how doctors are paid for chemotherapies, rheumatoid arthritis treatments and other drugs administered in their offices.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880284?srcpage=cqnamt

CONGRESS GAVE AMTRAK TOO MUCH POWER, APPEALS COURT SAYS	
A federal appeals court on Friday struck down provisions at the heart of a 2008 law that sought to improve the performance of Amtrak, ruling that Congress gave too much regulatory power to the government-run passenger railroad.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880269?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE INTELLIGENCE PANEL APPROVES ANNUAL POLICY BILL	
The House Intelligence Committee breezed through the mark up of its policy bill Friday, unanimously approving the annual measure that authorizes funding for the nation's intelligence agencies.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880171?srcpage=cqnamt

BROADCASTERS' INTEREST IN AUCTIONING AIRWAVES SATISFIES FCC	
Broadcast TV stations have expressed enough interest in auctioning some of their prime spectrum to wireless providers to meet the Federal Communications Commission's best-case scenario, the agency announced Friday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880169?srcpage=cqnamt

SUPREME COURT STAYS OUT OF TEXAS VOTER ID FIGHT	
The Supreme Court on Friday declined to step into a legal fight over Texas' 2011 voter identification law, but left open the possibility of doing so later this year.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880161?srcpage=cqnamt

TEXAS FIRM AIMS TO PUSH CONGRESS WITH NUCLEAR WASTE BID	
Raising the stakes on finding a solution to the nation's nuclear waste problem, a Texas company has submitted an application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct and operate a large interim storage facility for commercial nuclear waste -- with the caveat that the Energy Department assume liability for the waste.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4880296?srcpage=cqnamt

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