Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by Business Roundtable: Senate moves forward but a DHS funding bill still has no clear path in the House – Loretta Lynch’s roadblock
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DHS FUNDING BILL COULD PASS SENATE BUT HAS TROUBLE IN THE HOUSE. Jake Sherman and Manu Raju report, "Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid are ready to put an end to Capitol Hill's latest drama and fund the Department of Homeland Security. There's just one problem: Speaker John Boehner. The Senate majority and minority leaders cut a deal that did not have Boehner's blessing, sources say, and now the speaker is weighing whether to go down without a fight. House Republican leaders are strongly considering amending the Senate's "clean" DHS funding bill and dumping it back on McConnell's doorstep. That would complicate the fraught negotiations on the eve of a funding deadline for the domestic security
 agency and illustrate a new level of dissonance between the top two Republican leaders, according to multiple lawmakers and aides involved in the deliberations. The discussions on whether to accept a Senate plan, which would fund DHS through September and allow President Barack Obama's immigration policies to stand, are still in their early phases." 
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LYNCH'S ROADBLOCK. Seung Min Kim has the story, "After Sen. John McCain left a private meeting with Loretta Lynch in December, the Arizona Republican was inclined to support her nomination to become the nation's top law enforcement official. Sen. Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) also met with Lynch that month, saying she would most likely back her unless some issue arose during confirmation hearings. Now, both senators plan to vote against Lynch to be the next attorney general....Aides from both parties still expect the federal prosecutor from New York to be confirmed when her nomination hits the Senate floor, likely next month. But her testimony last month that she believes Obama's immigration actions
 are legal have clearly influenced Republicans who were once seen as potential votes in Lynch's favor." 
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BY STANDING STRONG ON DHS, BOEHNER WINS PRAISE FROM 'HELL NO' CAUCUS.From me,  "Some of the same GOP congressmen who begrudgingly reelected Boehner as speaker less than two months ago are praising the Ohio Republican now for his handling of the Department of Homeland Security standoff. The speaker, in their eyes, is holding strong by refusing to entertain a compromise that allows President Barack Obama's executive actions on immigration. 'John Boehner appears to have listened to the American people and also have listened to those who were doubtful whether we wanted to vote for him or not,' said Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho). 'He made us certain promises that he is going to fight on
 conservative grounds and so far he's kept them.' 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - First votes expected between 1:30 and 2:30 p.m. and last votes expected between 6 and 7 p.m. The Senate has no votes scheduled.

AROUND THE HILL - The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee will hold a hearing on missing emails from the Internal Revenue Service at 7 p.m. in 2154 Rayburn House Office Building. Sen. Harry Reid and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will discuss DHS funding at 10:30 a.m. in the Senate studio.

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STILL WAITING FOR APPROVAL. From Rachael Bade, "Nearly two years after the IRS was exposed for improperly sidetracking requests for tax exemptions from tea party groups, POLITICO has learned that at least a half dozen conservative applicants are still waiting for an answer. This challenges repeated assertions by IRS Commissioner John Koskinen that his embattled agency has "completed" a set of recommendations to fix the problem and address a backlog of nearly 300 applications, some of which had been pending already for three years. The groups that are still waiting include Karl Rove's giant Crossroads GPS, which spent $26 million against Democrats in the last election cycle. But most of the
 half-dozen are mom-and-pop outfits from New Mexico, Ohio and New Jersey, run by volunteers out of their own houses and operating at a fraction of Crossroads' budget." 
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OBAMACARE DECISION WOULD CHANGE HEALTH CARE POLITICS. David Nather and Jennifer Haberkorn report, "The Supreme Court next Wednesday hears a case that could end Obamacare subsidies in 34 states that use HealthCare.gov. If the justices rule that the subsidies are illegal through the federal exchange, they would largely unravel President Barack Obama's health care law, which has helped millions of Americans get insured. The circumstances are different than the last time the court had a chance to gut Obamacare. That was in 2012, and the court narrowly upheld the law and its unpopular individual mandate. Back then, most of the Affordable Care Act hadn't gone into effect yet; it was still partly
 an abstraction."

OUCH - THAT'S NOT HOW INVITES ARE SUPPOSED TO WORK. Via the Washington Times, "Rep. Carlos Curbelo won't be attending President Obama's immigration event Wednesday in the Republican's Miami district - not because he wasn't invited but because he was denied a ride on Air Force One...The White House did find space for other lawmakers, including Rep. Frederica Wilson, a Florida Democrat, the newspaper reported." 
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ADD ANOTHER NAME TO THE 'SKIP' LIST. From the Associated Press, "Democratic Rep. Jan Schakowski says she is skipping Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#39;s speech to Congress next week.The nine-term Illinois congresswoman said the speech should be postponed until after the Israeli elections next month. She says House Speaker John Boehner&#39;s invitation to Netanyahu without notifying President Barack Obama threatens Israel&#39;s security and undermines Congress bipartisan support for Israel." 
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POT LEGAL IN D.C. - BUT CHAFFETZ IS WATCHING. William Cummings writes in USA TODAY, "Despite warnings from congressional Republicans, Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser allowed D.C.&#39;s marijuana legalization law to take effect at 12:01 a.m. Thursday. Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, told Bowser that if she continued with her plan to implement marijuana legalization she would face 'very serious consequences.'.. Rep. Andy Harris, D-Md., who has been one of the most vocal opponents of marijuana legalization in D.C., says implementation of the law would be a violation of the Anti-Deficiency Act, which prohibits the spending of federal funds that have not
 been appropriated." 
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WEDNESDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Mitchell Rivard, a deputy chief of staff for Rep. Dan Kildee was the first to answer that James Garfield is the only person to be a congressman, senator-elect and president-elect simultaneously.

TODAY'S TRIVIA -Today's question is from me. It's Johnny Cash's birthday so we're going to pay homage by basis our question on the legendary artist. Cash met a number of presidents during his life but he said one was his favorite. Which president did Cash like above all others? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at 
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