Subject: POLITICO Huddle, Presented by Discovery Communications: IRAN BILL GETS DAY IN COMMITTEE -- On to floor next -- Immigration dogs Rubio -- BOEHNER RAKE$ IT IN
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Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 05:43:55 -0600

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Featuring Seung Min Kim

BIG DAY FOR IRAN BILL: The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will take up Chairman Bob Corker's congressional review bill for a nuclear deal with Iran today, a major pivot point for members of Congress that want to weigh in on the deal. Corker and his ranking member Ben Cardin have been negotiating furiously on a deal that could bring the vast majority of the Senate on board, and after a long day of talks they wake up this morning almost there. The key concessions from the GOP are likely to be shortening the 60-day review period that prevents President Barack Obama from lifting sanctions and also removing language the requires the administration certify that Iran is not directly funding
 terrorism. ""I don't want to ever commit and under-deliver - and I don't think I ever have. We are moving in a very positive direction and we've worked through some issues that give me a lot of hope," Corker said as they neared a deal (and he missed several trains to Dirksen as he talked.).

Quick action: The leadership is getting ready to move these bills too. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn said that Corker's bill is a candidate to get on the floor as early as next week and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said as soon the Senate sends it over the House will pick it up. He predicted a veto-proof majority for the bill. My story with Bres, Jake and Halley: 
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What's going on today: Secretary of State John Kerry, Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will continue their lobbying efforts to sell the Iran deal. Corker told us he doesn't expect them to engage much on the legislation -- that's being mostly left to Cardin to negotiate on behalf of the administration. Then it's onto the Foreign Relations Committee this afternoon, a hearing that was moved to a larger room in Dirksen given the press demand. We are hoping Sen. Chris Coons is wrong with his prediction: "We will have a vigorous and long markup." Vigorous? Sure. But Long?

More Iran reading: Sen. Tom Cotton's interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, in which Cotton predicts that Iran deal will lead to nuclear war. 
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THE RUBIO TICK TOCK YOU DESERVE: The Gang of Eight bill still defines Marco Rubio in the minds of many, even though it was passed in the Senate nearly two years ago. It's both his biggest legislative achievement -- and a potential pitfall in the GOP primary. Flashback to right after the 2012 election: "As a pair of deal-making Republicans deeply disliked by elements of the GOP base - Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham - were working with senators from both parties to draft an immigration bill, top Rubio hands flatly warned the Florida freshman not to go there ... Rubio didn't take the advice. And two years later, immigration remains the freshman senator's No. 1 liability in his bid for
 the 2016 Republican presidential nomination - though not necessarily the deal breaker it appeared to be after the reform effort Rubio helped shepherd to passage in the Senate hit a brick wall in the House." Seung Min and Manu: 
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On cue: "'I've done more immigration than Hillary Clinton ever did,' Rubio said in an interview with NPR ...'I mean, I helped pass an immigration bill in a Senate dominated by Democrats. And that's more than she's ever done. She's given speeches on it, but she&#39;s never done anything on it.'" 
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IMMIGRATION LOBBYING RAMP UP ON HILL - Don't tell these immigrant entrepreneurs that the prospects of immigration reform on Capitol Hill are basically dead for at least the next two years. On Tuesday, more than a dozen foreign-born entrepreneurs from across the country - from Boston to Texas to Silicon Valley - will embark on a "fly-in" to lobby several congressional offices on the need to rewrite immigration laws, particularly in order to boost visas for high-skilled foreign workers. The entrepreneurs range from a Chinese immigrant who co-founded a robotics company to an Australian native who leads a San Francisco start-up that manages global immigration issues, according to the group's
 organizers, FWD.us and the National Immigration Forum.

Whip list: Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rep. John Carter (R-Texas), Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Massachusetts Democrats Katherine Clark, Joe Kennedy and Michael Capuano, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.), California Democratic Reps. Xavier Becerra, Linda Sanchez and Anna Eshoo, and California GOP Reps. Jeff Denham and David Valadao. The advocates will also hold an afternoon press conference with Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who is pushing for legislation that would boost the annual cap on H-1B visas - a limit that was exhausted within just days earlier this month.

SUICIDE IDENTIFIED: "The Metropolitan Police Department has identified the man who shot himself on the Capitol grounds Saturday afternoon as 22-year-old Leo P. Thornton of Lincolnwood, Ill. MPD said detectives from its Criminal Investigations Division identified the victim, but did not provide a motive for the apparent suicide, and did not provide any details on the sign Thornton was apparently carrying." Bridget Bowman: 
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A dreary Tuesday but our spirits are sunny. And welcome to the Huddle, your play-by-play guide to everything Capitol Hill, where you people really need to stop jogging in the bike lane on East Capitol Street. Please send tips to 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - The House is in at 10 a.m. with the first vote series around 1:15 p.m., later the House will likely consider a motion to go to budget conference. The Senate is in at 10 a.m. but will recess twice: At 10:30 a.m. for an Iran briefing and at 12:30 p.m. for party lunches.

AROUND THE HILL - At 9 a.m. the House Democratic Caucus will meet in HVC 215. At 9:45 a.m. Sen. Coons will hold a pen and pad in S 316. At 10 a.m. House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leaders will hold a post-caucus availability outside HC 5. At 10:45 a.m. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Chris Van Hollen will talk budget in the Senate studio. At 11 a.m. in H 144, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer holds a pen and pad briefing. At noon Sens. Jerry Moran and Richard Blumenthal join Reps. Benishek and Honda to talk toxic exposure in the Senate swamp. Philly-area House members will talk about Delaware River conservation at 12:30 p.m. in Rayburn 2456. Also at 12:30 p.m. Sen. Barbara Mikulski leads a big
 presser on Equal Pay Day in SVC 203.At 1:30 p.m. Reps. Maloney and Butterfield lead a press conference in Studio A on economic challenges in the black community. And at 4:15 p.m. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will lead an equal pay day presser at the Will Rogers stake out.

MONDAY'S MOST CLICKED: Was the photo of Miami's Freedom Tower, which you know by now is iconic.

BRING BACK THE PEN AND PAD: Former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor killed off the beloved pen and pad as he sought to control the GOP's messaging more tightly, but Leader McCarthy is bringing it back. Matt Fuller tells us what that means: "There is a fine art in Congress to not making news. Minority Whip Steny H. Hoyer, who has maintained his weekly pen-and-pads with reporters, is well-versed in the craft. McCarthy is usually pretty good at it when he's just delivering a short spiel at GOP leadership's post-conference-meeting news conference. But fielding questions can inject uncertainty into some political messaging. [And it] could be dangerous for McCarthy, if he intends on giving such
 honest and newsy answers. Reporters are just hopeful the trend continues." 
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Let's make it a trend story: We should applaud any efforts to give us more access in an era where presidential campaigns launch with a tweet and everyone is trying to restrict the flow of news. Capitol Hill veterans have told me that the Senate leaders used to give pen and pads back in the day -- wouldn't that be a nice tradition to revive?

Flashback to what allegedly killed the pen and pad: "Cantor allowed CBS's '60 Minutes' program to film the usually camera free sit-down for a piece they are doing on the lawmaker ... Other television outlets wanted to pool camera resources if one network was allowed in. Members of the radio/TV gallery called Cantor's treatment of the newsmagazine a 'double-standard.'" A Jake Sherman joint that aged well: 
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$PEAKER OF THE HOUSE: John Boehner raised more than $5.4 million in the first three months of 2015, per Jake. "$906,000 for Friends of John Boehner, his re-election committee; $4.28 million for Boehner for Speaker, his joint fundraising committee which can accept large checks; and $301,000 for Freedom Project, his leadership PAC. Boehner transferred $2.6 million to the National Republican Congressional Committee." 
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HISTORY - President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 150 years today at about 10th and F NW -- Ford's Theater. The Washington Post's Elahe Izadi has a good rundown of how the media covered it then, when the AP didn't get to the shooting until the 2nd graf, which "could be the most buried lede ever published." 
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MURRAY WON'T ENDORSE DURBIN: No. 4 Senate leader Patty Murray refused to tell reporters on Monday night whether she will run for whip and when asked about her support for Durbin said: "'I am running for re-election and [am] focused on what we're doing right now which is the ESEA" ... Murray also declined on her timeline for making a decision. 'I've made a decision. I'm working on ESEA and I'm working to get re-elected.'" Alex Bolton: 
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TRANSITIONS - Ryan Nickel, communications director for Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), moves over to the Senate side to head up the communications shop for Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) starting Wednesday. Before Welch, Nickel worked for Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee and for the Democratic firm Catalist LLC. Shaheen's previous chief flak, Shripal Shah, left the Hill to lead communications and policy for Rock the Vote.

SOME GOOD NEWS: Metro's newest generation of rail cars is rolling today, with one new train hitting the Blue Line (which goes to Capitol South, so you might see it). "For the next few days, the train will be traveling the Blue Line before moving to other lines in the system. In a few weeks, a second eight-car train will start service. The trains are unlike anything Metro riders have ever seen before. They've got a hip new color palate, slip-resistant flooring and ergonomically engineered seats. Those garbled announcements? A thing of the past. The trains haveautomated announcements that should make knowing where you are a lot easier." WaPo: 
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MONDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - James Casto was the first to answer that the House was not reapportioned following the 1920 census.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - James has today's question, inspired by Hillary Clinton's cross-country road trip in a van: William McKinley was the first president to ride in an automobile, and Theodore Roosevelt was the first to ride in a government-owned car, a Stanley Steamer. Which president converted the White House stable to an automobile garage? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at 
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