Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by Chip & PIN Security Now!: SCHUMER’S BIND ON IRAN—Your friendly (and rich!) neighbors at the Ritz—BACK TO SCHOOL—White House Whip List On Trade
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SCHUMER'S BIND ON IRAN.The White House? Or his Jewish backers? Jennifer Steinhauer for the New York Times follows up with the Senate Democratic leader-in-waiting. Earlier this week he threw his weight behind a GOP bill many say would disrupt the fragile Iran nuke framework backed by President Obama: "Mr. Schumer has since largely declined to elaborate and has said only that he will wait for a classified briefing before making further comment...."

"Mr. Schumer, long personally hawkish on matters related to Israel, is caught between the Jewish voters and donors in his state and beyond who are pressuring him in conflicting directions, factions within his own party in the Senate, and a watchful White House that is seeking to limit the role of Congress in any deal it may make. It is a struggle that several Senate Democrats with large Jewish constituencies face but who, unlike Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the co-sponsor of the bill pushing for congressional oversight of Iranian sanctions, have been typically strongly supportive of the White House."

"Senators Benjamin L. Cardin of Maryland, Kirsten E. Gillibrand of New York and Cory Booker of New Jersey are buffeted by the same winds as Mr. Schumer. They are also now in the role of trying to negotiate with the White House on the terms of the bill, which will be voted on by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week." 
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LIFESTYLES OF THE RICH AND THE (POLITICALLY) FAMOUS.Welcome to the neighborhood at the Ritz-Carlton, where power players throw down more than a pretty penny for penthouse suits.Our Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman report: "[T]he 162-unit, West End enclave, which opened in 2000, has gradually amassed a roster of Washington power brokers from politics, business and society. Which isn't that surprising considering its amenities: everything from Ritz-Carlton hotel services like room service, housekeeping, private chefs, valet parking, access to the Equinox Sports Club, Cafe and Spa, 24-hour doorman security and proximity to posh restaurants like Ris and the West End Bistro."

Meet the neighbors - and the price they paid for their properties: "Tom Daschle, former Senate Democratic leader, 2015, $2.175 million. Harry Reid, Senate Democratic leader, 2001, $750,000. Franklin Raines, former White House Budget director; former chairman and CEO of Fannie Mae. 2008, $4.9 million. Stephen Ciccone, head of Toyota government affairs, 2005, $640,000. Zalmay Khalilzad, president, Gryphon Partners; former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, 2009, $900,000...Luis Fortuno, partner, Steptoe and Johnson; former governor of Puerto Rico, 2013, $1.32 million. Robert Stout, vice president and head of regulatory affairs for BP, 2014, $1.5 million. Michael M. Kaiser, former
 president of the Kennedy Center, 2001, $1.7 million. Juan P. Morillo, attorney for Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, owns two units purchased for $3.45 million and $1.8 million. Faryar Shirzad, global co-head of government affairs at Goldman Sachs; former White House National Security Council aide, 2014, $1.7 million." 
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MARGARITA TIME - IT'S FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015.Thanks for reading Huddle, where we're counting down the minutes 'til happy hour. It's been a pleasure hosting you this week; Burgess Everett takes over Monday. But in the meantime you can reach me at: 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS: Prepping to return to work. 

BACK TO SCHOOL. Spring break is over, and lawmakers will have a full plate when they return from the two-week Easter-Passover recess Monday. A top priority when they return: the budget talks, which face an April 15 soft deadline. Both chambers approved their respective budgets before skipping town, but now they must conference them - a key GOP priority since seizing both chambers. Although staff started piecing together the outlines of such a deal over break, Republican leaders will still have to name conferees and hold a public hearing.

UP IN THE HOUSE. Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) outlined a busy April schedule in a memo circulated to House Republicans Thursday. First up when they return: tax and IRS bills, with votes hitting the floor just around April 15, Tax Day. They'll also turn to appropriations - at least, the easy ones, including funding Military Construction and Veterans Affair and the Department of Energy. In the coming weeks the House will also reauthorize the Patriot Act, a touchy issue for libertarian-types. The Hill has a story: 
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ACROSS THE ROTUNDA:The Senate, meanwhile, has some unfinished business with an anti-human-trafficking bill, held up by the Democrats because of an abortion provision tucked into the legislation. There's also the Loretta Lynch nomination for Attorney General. But, more immediately, the Senate must decide what to do with Boehner-Pelosi Medicare reform deal to end the "doc fix." Though it has bipartisan backing, some Senate conservatives are unhappy with the cost.

POPPING OVERNIGHT:"Hillary Clinton expected to announce 2016 presidential campaign Sunday: source," per New York Daily News' Cameron Joseph: 
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"OBAMA TO DECIDE SOON ON REMOVING CUBA FROM TERRORISM," from The Wall Street Journal: "President Barack Obama is nearing an expected decision to remove Cuba from the U.S. list of governments that sponsor terrorism, a step that would jettison a key hurdle toward normalizing relations between the two countries. Mr. Obama signaled a forthcoming announcement on the eve of a gathering of leaders from the Americas in Panama-where he and Cuban President Raul Castro are expected to have their first face-to-face discussion since their December decision to normalize relations after more than 50 years of frozen ties." 
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Get ready for the blowback on Capitol Hill. Vocal critics of the Castro regime will raise a stink should he remove Cuba. Think: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and in the House, Florida GOP Reps. Mario Diaz-Balart and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen. And of course, watch Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) - though his indictment for corruption and removal from chief Democratic post on the Foreign Relations Committee could stifle the significance of his protests.

THE W.H. WHIP LIST ON TRADE. The Obama Administration has taken its hunt for liberal allies to support trade promotion authority to a new level: They're going back in time, counting votes from as far back as 2002 on issues related to trade. Pro Trade's Doug Palmer scoops: "TPA needs 218 votes to pass the House, which means getting the yeas of anywhere from 10 to 50 Democrats, depending on how many of the 247 Republicans in the House vote against the trade bill. Estimates of Republican defections vary widely from two dozen to as many as 60....To find the Democratic votes, the White House has looked at a number of lawmaker characteristics, such as their interest in particular countries, their
 desire to see stronger labor and environmental provisions in the trade agreements, and their districts or state reliance on exports."

The Whip List: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (Md.), Reps. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), Chris Van Hollen (Md.), Sander Levin (Mich.), Ruben Hinojosa (Texas), Susan Davis (Calif.), [John] Larsen (Conn.), Adam Smith (Wash.), Jim Costa (Calif.), Jared Polis (Colo.), Kathy Castor (Fla.), Gregory Meeks (N.Y.), Joseph Crowley (N.Y.), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Gerald Connolly (Va.) , Ron Kind (Wis.), Xavier Becerra (Calif.), and Earl Blumenhauer (Ore.). And Sens. Diane Feinstein (Calif.), Michael Bennett (Colo.), Tom Carper (Dele.), Bill Nelson (Fla.), Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.), Ron Wyden (Ore.), Mark Warner (Va.) and Maria Cantwell (Wash.) and Patty
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OUT THE DOOR. "Drew Willison to replace him," by Seung Min Kim: "Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said Thursday former Senate Sergeant-at-Arms Drew Willison will be his new chief of staff - replacing longtime aide David Krone as one of the most powerful staffers on Capitol Hill. Krone's departure has been expected for months ... Willison, like Krone, has longtime ties to Reid; he was staff director of the energy and water appropriations panel when Reid was ranking Democrat, before joining the ranks of the Senate's nonpartisan staff as one of its top law enforcement officials." 
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THURSDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER: Michael Toulouza was the first to answer that it was former Georgia Gov. Zell Miller who gave the keynote address at both Republican and Democratic presidential conventions. Wilfred U. Codrington III provided this detail: "At the Republican Convention in 2004, U.S. Senator Zell Miller, D-Georgia became the first speaker from the opposite party to address a national convention as keynoter.He was previously the keynote speaker (actually, one of three) at the Democratic convention in 1992, when he was governor of the state of Georgia."

TODAY&#39;S TRIVIA: "Politics and Pints" throwback: Rep. Michele Bachmann mistakenly stated that the Battle of Lexington and Concord was fought in what state? Email 
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