Subject: POLITICO Huddle, Presented by Allstate: HACKS SHAKES HILL -- Guinta loses support, Schock intern subpoenaed -- Ex-Im expiration ‘inevitable’ -- McConnell’s hardline on judges
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Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2015 06:07:52 -0600

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HILL-SHAKING HACK:  "Chinese hackers stole the personal information of 4.1 million current and former federal employees in one of the largest-ever breaches of a U.S. government computer network, federal officials revealed Thursday." Dave Perera: 
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REMEMBER WHEN CONGRESS WAS GOING TO DO A CYBER BILL? Follow me a couple months back on memory lane, when the Senate's cybersecurity bill was jockeying for position with the Iran review bill. The Iran bill won and cyber bills are still stalled after passing the Senate Intel committee 14-1 and the full House on April 22.With his cyber bill still awaiting floor action, Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr is talking big after the cyber-attacks: "Cybersecurity must be one of our top priorities ... We cannot continue to look the other direction. Our response to these attacks can no longer simply be notifying people after their personal information has been stolen; we must start to prevent these
 breaches in the first place.'

DRIP, DRIP, DRIP -- Guinta losing more support: Rep. Frank Guinta's political career is looking increasingly untenable after he admitted the violated FEC law this week, now losing the support of New Hampshire party chair Jennifer Horn. "Horn stopped just short of blatantly calling on Guinta to resign, but she came close, writing: 'It is clear that (Guinta's) credibility has been irreparably damaged. I hope that Frank can recognize this and act accordingly' ... But the controversy has continued to split the party. WMUR.com has learned that shortly after Horn&#39;s letter was emailed to committee members, party Vice Chairman Bryan Gould resigned his post." WMUR: 
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Another Schock subpoena: My attention was definitely piqued Thursday afternoon when I overheard the House clerk read a subpoena of former Rep. Aaron Schock intern Anthony DeThomas into the congressional record. Jake's got more: 
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EXING OUT EX-IM: The expiration of the Export-Import Bank is now viewed as "inevitable" on Capitol Hill, a major milestone for conservatives that will knock the bank off its charter for the first time since it was born in 1934. And the fight to revive the bank is going to pit two 2016 contenders, Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, against each other. While Graham has accused conservatives of waging "ideological jihad" on the bank, Cruz says it's just principle. "It would be a reckless gamble if this body were to try to hold our national defense hostage in an effort to force through an extension of crony capitalism," Cruz said, referring to discussions about potentially adding the plan to a
 defense policy bill. "That would be a reckless and irresponsible decision." Sen. Rand Paul seems less concerned, telling me in a very brief interview that I waited 45 minutes for that "I'm opposed to it, but I don't know how many votes we have or anything." My story with Manu: 
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McCONNELL'S HARD LINE ON JUDGES: The Senate majority leader told Hugh Hewitt yesterday that the trickle of judges so far this Senate is going to be the norm. McConnell: "The only judges we've confirmed have been federal district judges that have been signed off on by Republican Senators. Hewitt: "And do you expect that that will continue to be the case for the balance of this session?" McConnell: "I think that's highly likely, yeah."

Spin zone: He probably meant amendments, but McConnell said one reason the Senate is working this year is because "we had 15 roll call votes in 2014, we've had 120 or so this year."

REID'S HARD LINE ON APPROPRIATIONS - So Democrats are now vowing to block the defense bill, spending bill and transportation patches longer than 30 days. Should be a fun summer! "At a closed-door Democratic leadership meeting Tuesday night, [Senate Minority Leader Harry] Reid (D-Nev.) vowed that his caucus wouldn't allow a single spending measure to get a floor vote, sources familiar with the meeting say. And on Thursday at noon, his top lieutenants announced their party's intentions to filibuster and prevent Republicans from even calling up the spending measures. 'We will not vote to proceed to the Defense appropriations bill or any appropriations bills until Republicans have sat down at
 the table and figured out with us how we're going to properly fund the Defense Department ... and our families' domestic needs,' said Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) at the news conference disclosing the strategy." Rachael and Bres: 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - Nada.

SORT OF CLOSE TO THE HILL - Sen. Tom Cotton will talk foreign policy at a Financial Times/John Hopkins Center on Politics and Foreign Relations event at 10 a.m. at 1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW.

WAY OFF THE HILL -- Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers will deliver an "Imagining the Congress of the Future" speech this morning at the Personal Democracy Forum, where the No. 4 GOP leader says during these times "tax reform shouldn't take 20 years and answering a constituent letter shouldn't take three weeks ...Simply put: policymakers should be innovators."

On the Tube: If you're sitting around on Sunday afternoon and feel like you need an injection of Tennessee history, check out American Artifacts interview with Sen. Lamar Alexander, who keeps his famous checkered shirt from walking across the entire state on the walls of his office. Sunday at 6 p.m., with a preview here and a picture of Alexander and Richard Nixon that's really worth the click: 
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THURSDAY'S MOST-CLICKED: The story of Ted Cruz telling an ill-timed joke about Joe Biden.

WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND -- @Willsommer: Sen. Thad Cochran staffer accused of importing meth asks for permission to go to Rehoboth this weekend. The request: 
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SENATE VOTES DOWN SAME-SEX VET BENEFITS: A bid by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen to allow states to give same-sex couples veterans' benefits was defeated on Thursday, Roll Call's Matt Fleming reports. "Her amendment would have deferred the definition of marriage for qualifying for veterans benefits to the state where the marriage was issued. Eight Republicans joined Democrats: Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, Susan Collins of Maine, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mark S. Kirk of Illinois, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Rob Portman of Ohio." 
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PELOSI ON TRADE: 'NOT MY RESPONSIBILITY': House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is not going hunting for votes for the imperiled fast-track trade bill, which means Rep. Ron Kind is really going to learn whether he's cut out for a higher profile job in Dem leadership by the end of this. "I have confidence in him,' she said of House Speaker John Boehner. 'I believe he can deliver 200 of his members, but it&#39;s not my responsibility.' Boehner reminds us that's actually somebody else's job, so I guess it will be no one's fault at all if the House comes up short. "I'm not the whip, so I don't get into vote counts," Boehner said. Mike Lillis and Scott Wong for The Hill: 
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LIGHTER FRIDAY FARE: Jaime Fuller puts together a pretty definitive slideshow of politicians playing sports for us to enjoy. Top 5 photos: 5. Rand Paul's stretch; 4. Mitt Romney fleeing Evander Holyfield; 3. Jeff Flake's bad boxout; 2. Chris Christie's long toss; 1. Bill Clinton and Al Gore jogging. I'm saying those shorts are due for a comeback. 
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THURSDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Sean Neary was the first to answer that Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin ratified the Woman's Suffrage Act the same day it was passed by the Senate.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - Sean has today's question: In honor of tomorrow's Belmont Stakes, Name the senators who represent the stable and owner of Stakes favorite, American Pharoah. The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at 
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