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CQ News Morning Headlines - May 17, 2016

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THREE ANTI-ZIKA SPENDING PLANS JOSTLE FOR VOTES IN SENATE	
Senators dive into work Tuesday on a double-bill appropriations package with three afternoon procedural votes scheduled on competing amendments that could funnel extra money toward fighting the Zika virus.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888851?srcpage=cqnamt

MASSIVE SENATE SPENDING PACKAGE DRAWS OPEN-ENDED VETO THREAT	
The White House issued a vaguely worded veto threat Monday against the two-bill appropriations package (HR 2577) the Senate will debate this week, warning that objectionable policy riders would lead senior advisers to recommend President Barack Obama reject the legislation.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888776?srcpage=cqnamt

FIRST SPENDING BILLS OF THE SEASON HEADED FOR HOUSE FLOOR	
The House floor could see its first appropriations bills of the season soon, following a Rules Committee hearing Tuesday afternoon to set debate guidelines on the Military Construction-VA bill and a Zika supplemental spending bill.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888755?srcpage=cqnamt

PANEL BACKS NDAA RULE WITH WATERED DOWN WOMEN'S DRAFT PROVISION	
The House is averting a major floor fight over women in combat by including as part of the rule for debate on the annual Pentagon policy bill language that would water down a provision requiring women to sign up for the Selective Service.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888877?srcpage=cqnamt

MORE THAN 60 AMENDMENTS IN FIRST DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION RULE	
The House Rules Committee on Monday reported out a floor rule providing for floor consideration of the fiscal 2017 Defense Authorization (HR 4909). The measure is expected on the floor Tuesday and Wednesday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888878?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE GOP UNVEILS ZIKA RESPONSE; DEMOCRATS SAY IT'S NOT ENOUGH	
House Appropriations Chairman Harold Rogers unveiled House Republicans' $622.1 million, fully offset anti-Zika spending bill on Monday, and was immediately rebuked by Democrats for not allocating the full amount requested by the Obama administration.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888701?srcpage=cqnamt

APPROPRIATORS WANT TO TRIPLE REQUEST FOR ISRAELI MISSILE DEFENSE	
The House Appropriations Committee plans to approve a draft defense spending bill Tuesday that would provide just over $600 million for Israeli antimissile programs, more than three times as much money as the White House requested.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888794?srcpage=cqnamt

ZIKA NAME CHANGE ON RULE-EASING BILL BUGS HOUSE DEMOCRATS	
House Republicans are using the fears of the Zika virus to add some legislative momentum to a bill that would remove Environmental Protection Agency pesticide permitting regulations under the Clean Water Act, House Democrat leaders said Monday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888787?srcpage=cqnamt

HOUSE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH REPORT ORDERS 'ILLEGAL ALIEN' LANGUAGE	
The Library of Congress would have to use the term "illegal alien" to describe undocumented immigrants under language in the House Appropriations Committee report on the $3.5 billion fiscal 2017 Legislative Branch spending bill released Monday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888619?srcpage=cqnamt

HEARING ON CLEAN POWER PLAN CHALLENGE MOVED TO SEPTEMBER	
The legal challenge to the Obama administration's key greenhouse gas reduction rules will get a hearing on Sept. 27, almost four months later than originally planned, in front of the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, on which most of the judges were appointed by Democrats, the court said in a filing http://www.cq.com/doc/?docid=4888821 on Monday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888858?srcpage=cqnamt

PUBLICIZE OFFENSIVE U.S. CYBER TOOLS TO DETER ATTACKS, LANGEVIN SAYS	
The United States should be more transparent in promoting its cyber capabilities to deter adversaries from attacking U.S. networks, Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., said Monday.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888758?srcpage=cqnamt

SUPREME COURT PUNTS ON BIRTH CONTROL MANDATE CASE	
The Supreme Court declined Monday to rule in a dispute over the contraception mandate in the health care overhaul involving religious nonprofits such as Little Sisters of the Poor, a group of Roman Catholic nuns.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888611?srcpage=cqnamt

SUPREME COURT RESTRICTS WHO CAN BRING PRIVACY LAWSUITS	
The Supreme Court on Monday backed Congress' ability to give consumers and Internet users the right to file lawsuits over false credit and other information, but restricted who can bring such a case.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888665?srcpage=cqnamt

OKLAHOMA CONSIDERING MEDICAID EXPANSION	
Oklahoma legislators are racing against the fiscal year clock in an effort to agree on a budget that could expand Medicaid and save medical providers from severe payment cuts.
http://www.cq.com/doc/4888737?srcpage=cqnamt

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