Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by the Beer Institute: GOP welcomes BiBi -- Warren to skip his address today -- Tickets hotter than Latkes -- Senate boxes in Boehner -- Pryor lands in law firm
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Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2015 06:46:06 -0600

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ZERO HOUR FOR NETANYAHU: Today is the big day, a speech more hyped than most State of the Union addresses. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address (most) members of Congress at 11 a.m. House Speaker John Boehner may have irked President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats in the way that he invited Netanyahu with the White House's knowledge, but in a preview video of the address Boehner says "America's bond with Israel is stronger than the politics of the moment." Speaker's watch guide: 
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New in Huddle: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is welcoming the prime minister this morning with a video message, calling the timing of the address a "critical moment in U.S.-Israeli relations." He adds: "Iran's campaign to expand its sphere of influence across the Middle East threatens the interests of both of our countries; and Prime Minister Netanyahu is singularly capable of explaining the threat Iran's nuclear capability poses to Israel, America, and the world. Congress should receive our ally warmly and respectfully as we work with him to ensure our countries address this threat jointly." 
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WARREN WILL SKIP: Of course not everyone is as excited about Netanyahu's address as Boehner and McConnell, and word of the most high-profile snub after Obama and Vice President Joe Biden came last night when Elizabeth Warren announced she would not attend. "It's unfortunate that Speaker Boehner's actions on the eve of a national election in Israel have made Tuesday's event more political and less helpful for addressing the critical issue of nuclear nonproliferation and the safety of our most important ally in the Middle East," Warren said in a statement to the Boston Globe that was not widely distributed. Still, several other Democrats who hadn't made a decision broke the other way:
 Minority Whip Dick Durbin and Chris Murphy will attend, with Murphy telling me that "the speech is a mistake, but the relationship is too important" between the U.S. in Israel. 
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The final-ish tally: 57 Democrats were slated to skip Netanyahu's speech, per The Hill's valuable whip count. That's 49 in the House and eight in the Senate, with many still publicly on the fence until the last minute. 
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DEPT. OF TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE: Obama and Netanyahu tried to prematurely bury the hatchet over the speech, which will focus on what a bad a deal the PM thinks Obama is getting from Iran during nuclear negotiations. "'America and Israel are more than friends. We're like a family. We're practically mishpacha,' Netanyahu told AIPAC on Monday. 'Disagreements in the family are always uncomfortable. But we must always remember that we are family.' In a Monday interview with Reuters, Obama also chose not to escalate the feud. 'This is not a personal issue," he said, adding that Netanyahu "is sincere about his concerns with respect to Iran.'" Edward-Isaac Dovere and Michael Crowley: 
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HOW HOT ARE TICKETS TO THE SPEECH? "Hotter than fresh latkes," Chuck Schumer tells Ashley Parker of the New York Times. But this might be one time that a staff quote outshines all the on-the-record quotes that Ashley got. Take it away Boehner spokesman Michael Steel: "If Taylor Swift and Katy Perry did a joint concert at Madison Square Garden wearing white-and-gold and black-and-blue dresses, accompanied by dancing sharks and llamas, that's the only way you'd have a tougher ticket." Required reading: 
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SENATOR BARB TO RETIRE: Barbara Mikulski sure knows how to keep a secret. News of her retirement broke only a few minutes before her surprise Monday speech in Baltimore's Fells Point neighborhood. "In good health at 78, the senator said she wants to shift her focus: 'Do I spend my time raising money? Or do I spend my time raising hell? ...'There's nothing gloomy about this announcement,' ... 'I'm not frustrated with the Senate.'" Marc Fisher and Jenna Johnson for WaPo: 
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Quite a legacy: Seung Min Kim's piece on Mikulski has plenty of great nuggets. The Dean of Senate Women fought with Robert Byrd to be able to wear pants in the chamber, rather than skirts, and one of her first big political wins was preventing a highway in Fells Point, one of the best preserved hoods in Baltimore. 
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Senate scramble: If you live in Maryland and have a D next to your name, there's a good chance you are exploring a run for this open seat. Kyle Cheney and Lauren French: 
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Three things I will miss in 2017: Mikulski has one of the best accents in all of politics, a strong Baltimore variation that makes hearing the words "ocean" and "water" on the Senate floor a joy. She certainly has her own style: Ask her for a quick interview and she might answer, "Who are you with? Politico? OK, hello Politico." And don't make the mistake of being in her way as she trudges to Senate votes: Her "excuse me!" could turn into a purse swing if you aren't careful.

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TODAY IN CONGRESS - The Senate is in at 9:45 a.m. and may begin voting on an NLRB resolution. There will be a long recess in the middle of the day to allow for party lunches and Netanyahu's address. The House is in at 10 a.m. and will immediately recess for the speech. Votes on a passenger rail bill and a pair of science bills are scheduled this week.

AROUND THE HILL - Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid will meet with Netanyahu with a photo spray outside McConnell's office at 3 p.m.

MONDAY'S MOST-CLICKED: The masterful tick-tock of the GOP's DHS fiasco by Manu, Jake and Bresnahan. Speaking of DHS...

DHS DRAMA CONTINUES: Here we are again just four days until funding lapses, with Boehner only more boxed in than before. Senate Democrats rejected the House's motion to go to conference on Monday night and House Democrats are adamant there's a deal to vote on a clean, full-year bill in the house this week. Meanwhile Senate Republicans are starting to think that their job is done after passing that very bill last week and demonstrating that the Senate has no appetite for anything beyond a clean bill. "This sends it back over to the House and it's in their court. They could change it and send it back to us. But we've sort of seen what the prospects would be," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn
 of Texas told me. Our story: 
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Right makes an offer: "Conservatives want a two-week extension of funding for the agency with a one-week window for the House and Senate to begin meeting in conference on a longer-term bill. But it's not likely to get much traction," Lauren French reports. "For one, the Senate has rejected going to conference committee on a short-term extension. And the House Rules Committee, which is controlled by GOP leadership, has declined to block a rule that could eventually allow for Democrats to bring a clean DHS funding bill to the floor for a vote." 
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Air war cranks up: The House leadership-aligned American Action Network is airing ads beginning today urging conservatives to support DHS funding. 
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SCHOCK GIVES BACK:  "Less than a day after the Chicago Sun-Times revealed that Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., billed taxpayers for a private plane ride to Chicago for a Bears game, on Monday he repaid the government $1,237 for the trip ... With the latest check, Schock in the past weeks has paid $41,237 back to the U.S. Treasury to cover expenses billed to taxpayers." Sun-Times: 
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PRYOR KNOWLEDGE: It didn't take long for ousted Sen. Mark Pryor to land on his feet. He has joined Venable as a partner in D.C., coming on board with a ton of other former Washington heavyweights.

AAF plucks from the Hill: Former Mac Thornberry aide Rachel Hoff is AAF's director of defense analysis and Tara O'Neill comes on as health care policy analyst from Tom Rice's office.

MONDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - John Clark was the first to answer that the 25th Amendment was ratified in 1967 and Gerald Ford was the first president to ascend to the nation's highest office via the amendment.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - John has today's question: Who were the only father and son to serve in the U.S. Senate Simultaneously. Please give their name, what states and the years served. The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at 
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