Subject: POLITICO Huddle: NEW EBOLA CASE -- Hearing in House today -- GOP nationalizing more Senate races -- MELTDOWN MIKE, A REPORTER’S DREAM -- Republicans’ different direction on Intel
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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:16:55 -0600

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EBOLA CASE IN NYC: Per AP: "Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo urged residents not to be alarmed by the doctor&#39;s diagnosis Thursday, even as they described him riding the subway, taking a cab and bowling since returning to New York from Guinea a week ago ... Health officials have been tracing[Craig] Spencer&#39;s contacts to identify anyone who may be at risk. The city&#39;s health commissioner, Mary Bassett, said Spencer&#39;s fiancee and two friends had been quarantined but showed no symptoms." 
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Sen. Chuck Schumer: "I've spoken this evening to both the Ebola Response Coordinator Ron Klain and HHS Secretary Burwell; they have assured me that all federal resources will be available to New York in any way. I will be monitoring the situation very closely."

Serendipitous timing: The House's main focus is sure to be the new Ebola case during a rare recess hearing today. The full House Oversight Committee will convene at 9:30 a.m. in 2154 Rayburn. Witness list: 
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OBAMA, OBAMA OBAMA, OBAMA OBAMA (sung in tune of "Versace" by Migos): My man Manu Raju surveys the landscape in red states once assumed to be safe for the GOP, like Kansas and South Dakota. Republicans there are doing everything they can to tie independents to President Barack Obama and national Democrats, a national effect that is now being employed essentially everywhere by the GOP. Killer anecdote alert: "Their bitter 55-minute debate had just ended. Greg Orman walked across the stage, looked Republican Sen. Pat Roberts in the eye, shook his hand and smiled. 'You said, 'Harry Reid' 38 freaking times,' Orman, running as an independent, told Roberts." 
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Harry Reid effect on
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 full display in Georgia, per @ajconwashington: Team Perdue really wants everyone to know there is a tracker in their midst #gapol #GASen 
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SEEING RED IN ILLINO
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IS: Sometimes, you just really want to see how someone would act during a House floor debate. Mike Bost, who's running against reserved Democratic Rep. Bill Enyart, is that guy, according to Alex Isenstadt's profile of the fiery Bost. "The Illinois Republican's explosive behavior on the floor of the state Legislature - paper-throwing, microphone-slamming, Bible-invoking tirades - have made him a YouTube sensation and one of the most controversial House candidates of 2014 ... Bost's hard-charging style has at times drawn unwelcome headlines. Last month, it was revealed that in 1984 Bost shot and killed a beagle that had bitten his 4-year-old daughter Kasey near her eye socket, causing her to
 get 24 stitches." 
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But wait, there's more: For your morning enjoyment, two of his famous tirades. Pension reform: 
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INTELLIGENCE CONTRAST: The past two years have strained the Senate Democratic majority's relationship with the intelligence community, from data mining to the CIA's interrogation report to the CIA's intrusion into Senate files. So while Republicans are vowing to take on the Obama administration at every turn, the intelligence community isn&#39;t likely to be one of their main leverage points. Sen. Richard Burr, the leading contender to chair the Intelligence Committee in a GOP Senate, said he's past the drama with the CIA: "Dianne may have some problems with it but I think we've gotten a full accounting of what happened ... there's some mistakes but I don't think it's the first director
 that's made mistakes." My story: 
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Wyden unplugged: Sen. Ron Wyden told me he's mulling using the arcane process called Senate Resolution 400 to release the beleaguered interrogation report over the White House's head if the scuffle over redactions continues. He also had tough words for how the CIA has treated the Senate: "If a 19-year-old had done what the CIA did with respect to the Senate files, that 19-year-old would be sitting in jail today. And I am not going to let these kind of serious matters -- questions of truthfulness and questions with respect to criminal law -- I am not going to let them be swept under the rug."

LET'S TALK: GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski says she spoke to Don Young about his recent remarks on suicide. In a Facebook post she said she "encouraged him to rethink the past few days and apologize to Alaskans so we can all be rowing in the same direction against suicide ... Words matter, and I hope Don can recognize the need to apologize to all Alaskans who have been impacted by the tragedy of suicide."

CAPITOL FENCE MEETS RESISTANCE: Roll Call's Hannah Hess stays on one of the most interesting stories for the Huddle community. "The idea of building a security fence around the Capitol appears just as unpopular now as it was a decade ago ... In 2004, House appropriators added language to the legislative branch appropriations bill to prohibit Capitol Police from spending public dollars on the project. At the time, amendment sponsor Sam Farr, D-Calif., said a fence 'really hurt the image and understanding of what a democracy is all about' ... Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., rejected the fence ... late Thursday afternoon ... 'Worse, closing the streets and enclosing the Capitol within a
 fence would send the message that a Congress that cannot keep itself safe without fencing itself in cannot keep the country safe.'" 
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GET READY -- @RyanBeckwith has your Senate election schedule right here: Close Senate races, by poll closing time:

7 p.m. Ga., Ky.

7:30 p.m. N.C.

8 p.m. N.H.

9 p.m. Colo., La., Kan.

10 p.m. Iowa

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 a.m. Alaska 

TWITTER TRAFFIC -- @BunBTrillOG: Thank you Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee! #Honored instagram.com/p/ugan_yDQ9z/ 
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SECOND-TO-LAST FRIDAY BEFORE THE ELECTION, Y'ALL. And welcome to the Huddle, your play-by-play guide to everything Capitol Hill. Thanks a ton for waking up with me this week, I'll be leaving you in the capable hands of Lauren French next week. Please send tips to 
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DEMOCRATIC TELEPHONE: Republicans are delighted about the lack of coordination between the White House and congressional Democrats during the midterms (His policies are on the ballot, Senate Democrats support his agenda, etc.). The L.A. Times dives in: "White House officials argue that Obama is doing all he can to help struggling Democrats. He's raised millions for campaign committees, delayed controversial elements of his policy agenda and tailored his message to cater to their political needs, they say ...Privately, the president's advisors are frustrated by the media's rush to see a gaffe where the White House sees smart politics. If Obama isn&#39;t sticking to his allies' message,
 it&#39;s because it&#39;s a losing message, they argue." 
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NEWSPAPERS, WHO NEEDS 'EM? Politicians never gain when they appear to be shying away from transparency. In recent weeks both parties have been tagged: Rep. Bill Cassidy skipped a televised debate against Sen. Mary Landrieu, Sen. Kay Hagan did the same against Thom Tillis. Now Iowa GOP Senate nominee Joni Ernst is taking fire for peacing out on editorial boards. Dylan Byers takes it away: ''Is Joni Ernst afraid of newspaper editorial boards?'' Rekha Basu, a Register columnist, wrote on Facebook ... Basu&#39;s son is a volunteer on [Democrat Bruce] Braley's staff, a fact she noted in her latest column. Rick Green, the Register&#39;s publisher and president, told POLITICO, 'Any affiliation
 that Basu's son has with Braley's campaign is not a factor in our endorsement process.'"Ernst's camp says she skipped because 'Recent editorials in the Des Moines Register make their position in this race perfectly clear." Dylan's story: 
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http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=f901f4ad555a6940d0abc1fdb2c5e8ed6cbe5fbb5d1a2cdf93ab0eb6575b72c9  Basu's Facebook post: 
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Quibble: Basu also asks "Would Ernst similarly thumb her nose at the press while serving in the Senate?" The reality is of course that many senators thumb their nose at us quite frequently.

CAN'T HELP THEMSELVES: Scott Brown and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen debated again last night, and this time we only received 23 fact checks or press releases during the evening from them. That's down from 28 earlier this week. Still way too many.

More questionable media management: Apologies to Breitbart's Matt Boyle for missing this at first, but Shaheen's staff tossed him out of an event. 
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HEAD-SCRATCHER: "A popular military enlistment program for immigrants with specialized skills is now stuck in bureaucratic limbo - after the Pentagon announced last month it would begin allowing some young immigrants without legal status into the program. Army officials confirmed Thursday that the program, called Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest, has been suspended while the service tries to finalize screening procedures for the immigrants who want to enlist ... 'It's a major bureaucratic screw-up by the Obama administration,' Margaret Stock, a retired lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve who first came up with the MAVNI program, said in an interview.'" SMK and Jeremy
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NOBODY LIKES NAZIS: Lawmakers are in a rush to cut off Social Security benefits to Nazi war criminals after a big AP scoop earlier this week. This being Congress, of course, there are already competing proposals. My item: 
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REIDING BETWEEN THE LINES: It's not looking good for Democrats in Nevada, where Lucy Flores was the great hope for lieutenant governor. Ralson Reports that she's down by 11 points in a new poll. That means that IF Brian Sandoval wants to run for the Senate in 2016 against Harry Reid, it's appearing likely a Republican would replace him as governor, rather than Democrat Flores. 
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ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE NEEDLER: Conservative Review launched a couple weeks ago ready to skewer Republicans over just about everything. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy's 2015 agenda, for example, is a piece of "soggy white bread." 
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EYES ON THE ROAD: Capitol Hill is surrounded by busy streets filled with guys in suits and women with briefcases and all sorts of important people, so the Capitol Police are cracking down. "United States Capitol Police have issued more than 440 citations for distracted driving on the streets near the US Capitol in the past three years, according to a review by the News4 I-Team." 
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@mikedebonis: Because congressional pedestrians are apparently more important than regular pedestrians...

RESPECT -- Fearless POLITICO leader Jim Vandehei emails our staff yesterday: "David Rogers, one of the finest journalists of this or any era, is getting rightly recognized for his outstanding writing and reporting: He has won the David Nyhan Prize for Political Journalism, award by the Harvard Kennedy School. David will receive the high honor Dec. 1at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum at Harvard Kennedy School.This award recognizes his amazing journalistic work and achievements over the past 30 years."

Flashback, John Kerry Senate retirement speech: 'I thank David Rogers for all that he has stood for so long in this institution ... It is hard to imagine my job without seeing him in that long green coat waiting by the elevator after a late-night vote.'
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THURSDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Wilfred U. Codrington III, Esq., was the first to answer our burning question about President Barack Obama and Speaker John Boehner's cigarette use: "Obama prefers Marlboro Red and Boehner used to prefer Barclays, but has switched to Camel Ultra Lights."

TODAY'S TRIVIA - I'm taking today's question: Of the 165 congressional memorials at Congressional Cemetery, how many are actually grave sites? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at 
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