Subject: POLITICO’s Huddle, presented by Allstate: PATRIOT ACT GOES DARK — War breaks out between GOP, Paul — BILL CHANGES TO COME — Graham launches — RECONCILIATION JIGSAW
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Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 06:17:53 -0600

By Rachael Bade (
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ABOUT LAST NIGHT--

PATRIOT ACT GOES DARK.The rare, emergency Senate session last night failed, as expected, to renew the fed's anti-terrorism spy authority, which expired at midnight amid a tense battle between Republicans and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who blocked the bill. Chris Strohm for Bloomberg on what it means: "For the first time since soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, intelligence and law enforcement agencies can't initiate the use of these tools to monitor communications of suspected terrorists or seize records for counterterrorism investigations."

Rand Standing... "Senators late Sunday advanced a House bill that would extend the three provisions while curbing spy programs exposed two years by former U.S. contractor Edward Snowden. The Senate couldn't advance the measure because of procedural obstacles raised by ... Paul...who says it doesn't do enough to limit spying. Other Republicans including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want changes to the House bill..."

"The Senate is expected to vote ... on passing the ... USA Freedom Act, because supporters think they have the votes to override Paul's procedural hurdles by then. Meanwhile, the programs will be unavailable to the government." 
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BUT NOT BEFORE...

WAR BREAKS OUT BETWEEN GOP, PAUL. My colleagues Manu Raju and Burgess Everett on the debate that turned ugly: "Behind closed doors in the Senate's Strom Thurmond Room, Republican senators lashed out at [Paul]'s defiant stance... Indiana Sen. Dan Coats... accused the senator of 'lying' about the matter in order to raise money for his presidential campaign, according to three people who attended the meeting. The message may have gotten through to Paul except for one thing: The libertarian-minded senator skipped the hour-long meeting. That only infuriated his colleagues more."

Senators dish... "'Anything that goes against anything he believes, he never comes,' Coats said in an interview. 'It's always helpful if you're in there working to have your position understood, and we all learn a lot and we all try to come to a much better understanding of what we're trying to do.' 'He needed to be there,' said Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.). 'He really needed to be there.' Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) noted that Paul has missed 'a number of meetings' Republicans have held on the PATRIOT Act in recent weeks. He contended there was an obvious political reason for Paul's stance, pointing out how his colleague was tweeting supporters taking 'selfies' of themselves next to Paul
 speaking on TV. 'I know what this is about - I think it's very clear - this is, to some degree, a fundraising exercise,' McCain said Sunday. 'He obviously has a higher priority for his fundraising and political ambitions than for the security of the nation.'" 
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CONTINUES ON THE FLOOR... Pro Tech's Alex Byers captures more of the tense mood as Coats and McCain refused to yield the floor to Paul: "With dozens of Senate onlookers donning 'Stand with Rand' T-Shirts, Paul tried to interject as Coats and McCain were speaking in defense of the National Security Agency. But McCain and Coats wouldn't yield the floor... When Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who was presiding over the chamber, said later that time for debate had expired, Paul was incensed. He said he had not gotten to speak and argued the time had been miscounted, even calling for a roll call vote to challenge Grassley's rulings. Paul ultimately was allowed to speak for a few minutes, but not
 before McCain objected again to Paul speaking, and the typically tranquil Grassley raised his voice."

"After the spat, Coats - who was previously lamenting lies told about the NSA by unnamed members of the Senate - walked over to talk to the visibly agitated Paul and said he wasn't trying to silence the Kentucky senator. But Paul appeared uninterested in Coats' explanation, and the conversation - audible in the Senate balcony reserved for reporters - ended with a wave of the hand and 'whatever' from Paul." 
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AMENDMENTS TO COME. Senate Republican leadership over the weakened announced its intention to amend the House-passed NSA reform bill, called the USA Freedom Act, once it hits the floor later this week. That means the House could have to vote again on the measure. Senate changes would likely require the phone companies to tell Uncle Sam when they revise their record-retention practices, and give both the government and private companies more than the slated half-year to transition to the new system. 

IT'S JUNE - AND THIS IS HUDDLE. Nothing says, "Welcome back from recess!" like a late-night Senate session. Grab that coffee - busy week ahead. I'm subbing in for Burgess Everett, your Huddle host this week, since he was up late following the PATRIOT Act drama. In the meantime, I'm reachable at: 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS: The Senate returns at noon and will resume consideration of the USA Freedom Act. A cloture vote to cut off debate is tentatively slated for tomorrow morning.Meanwhile, the House returns tonight for 6:30 p.m. votes on a number of suspenders.

AROUND THE HILL: House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) will hold a pen and pad around 10 a.m. 

AROUND TOWN.  HBO's "VICE" this evening is doing an advanced screening of an episode centered on a topic important to Sens. Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.): sexual assault on campus. The two Senators will speak at the event.

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UP TODAY: GRAHAM LAUNCHES. Bill Barrow for the AP in Central, S.C.: "Lindsey Graham will formally launch his bid for president in the small South Carolina town where he grew up. His White House ambitions are rooted half a world away in the Middle East. When kicking off his campaign Monday, South Carolina&#39;s senior senator is sure to blast President Barack Obama&#39;s withdrawal of troops from Iraq, insist on the need to strong-arm Iran over its nuclear program and work to subdue the violent Islamic State militants who have gained footholds in Iraq and Syria."

"Yet in the early days of the 2016 campaign for president, Graham has already gone further than most of his rivals for the GOP nomination in saying how he would tackle such problems, while acknowledging the potential costs of his strategy. Graham wants to put an additional 10,000-plus U.S. troops into Iraq, adding to the several thousand there now working as trainers and advisers only. He says it could take even more troops to stabilize the Middle East over time, adding 'more American soldiers will die in Iraq and eventually in Syria to protect our homeland. ... Graham&#39;s hawkish approach stands in stark contrast to his fellow U.S. senator and presidential candidate, Kentucky&#39;s Rand
 Paul, who favors less military intervention abroad. It&#39;s also notable for its specifics, especially his warning that U.S. troops are likely to perish in the Middle East as part of his approach." 
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GOP TO UNPUZZLE THE RECONCILIATION JIGSAW. The GOP has until the end of July to make a game plan to repeal ACA - but already they're noticing that reconciliation's a ... pain.A preview of the challenges by your Huddle author and Pro Health's Jennifer Haberkorn: "Repealing the law 'root and branch' is probably out of the question, the chamber's parliamentarian is hinting, because some parts of Obamacare don't affect the federal budget. That's a must in order to use the obscure procedure known in Senate parlance as reconciliation... That's not the GOP's only problem. Under those rules any Obamacare repeal has to reduce - not increase - the deficit. So Republicans will have to pick and choose
 which parts of the Affordable Care Act they most want to ditch."

Why it matters: "Obama will, of course, veto any bill that significantly damages his signature domestic policy achievement. But the entire process has the makings of a difficult political exercise that will reveal something about the GOP's priorities when it comes to the reviled law, forcing the party to go beyond the pile-on repeal rhetoric and say specifically what it would do and how it would pay for it." 
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PROFILE OF THE DAY-

OBAMA'S ENEMY NO. 1 ON TRADE: DELAURO. Our Lauren French profiles the de facto leader of the House Democratic opposition to the fast track trade powers Obama wants so badly, who's whipping against the trade vote: Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.): "DeLauro's rise as a central player on trade marks a new chapter for a liberal congresswoman... For years, DeLauro was largely known as an outspoken proponent of food safety and women's issues... She's long been celebrated online as an original hipster because of her penchant for colorful, often jeweled, eyeglasses and steampunkish clothing. And while she's always been willing to call out Republican and Democratic opponents on her chief issues, the trade
 debate has brought out the bare-knuckled legislative fighter in DeLauro."

"Democrats say she's strong-armed them on the House floor for months with concerns over currency manipulation and labor standards in the Trans-Pacific Partnership....The anti-trade campaign also draws on her personal history. DeLauro was born in New Haven, the daughter of a blue-collar mom and an Italian immigrant father. Her mother worked in the garment industry - the 'sweat shops,' as DeLauro describes them. She said that experience helped her realize the importance of protecting low-wage workers from the job losses." 
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OVER THE WEEKEND-

BEAU BIDEN DIES OF BRAIN CANCER. Paul Kane for The Washington Post, Part I: "Biden, 46, the oldest son of the vice president and the rising star of a family dynasty, had been admitted recently to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda as he fought the cancer, a battle that his father largely kept private in the last weeks as his son clung to his life." 
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Part II: "Joe Biden's adult life, spent almost entirely in the public eye, has now been bookended by tragedy. Before he could formally begin his Senate career, Biden buried his wife, Neilia, and daughter, Naomi. Now, as his vice presidency heads toward its final months, he will bury his oldest son, the heir to the family dynasty who was fast carving his own political identity with seemingly limitless opportunity. In the past few weeks, the vice president's closest confidants grew worried about how he could handle another loss."

"Ted Kaufman, 76, the former senator and Biden's longtime Senate chief of staff, returned to work for the vice president in a part-time capacity, mostly just to be at his side during the difficult time. Some worried about whether Biden could deliver the Yale [graduation] speech [just before his son died], given that the invitation came with a specific request that he tell his personal story... Rather than skip the address, Biden, 72, turned it into a personal explanation of his career, from sorrow to the Senate, from tragedy to global diplomacy. Some advisers grew emotional last week when talking about the speech, knowing how close Beau Biden was to death, calling it the crystallization of
 Joe Biden's effort to weave his personal beliefs into his political career." 
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FRIDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER: Andrew Smith was the first to answer that Vanya Shivashankar spelled "scherenschnitte" correctly to become the second co-champion of the Scripps National Spelling Bee. Need a definition? It means "scissor cuts' in German.

TODAY&#39;S TRIVIA: Before the 12th Amendment was passed in 1804, how or who picked the vice president? Email 
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