Subject: POLITICO Huddle: OPM HACK GETS MUCH WORSE – Hill pounces on Archuleta – HOUSE’S CONFEDERATE FLAG DRAMA – Schumer open to short-term on highways -- OBAMA, DEMS HUDDLE ON EX-IM – Trouble bubbles on Cures bill
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Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 05:33:05 -0600

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With an assist from Burgess Everett

OPM: 21M AFFECTED IN SECOND HACK - The news for federal employees just keeps getting worse. Erin Kelly and David Jackson for USA Today: "The massive hack of background check records at the Office of Personnel Management compromised the data of 21.5 million people - five times more than were affected by an initial breach .... The victims of that second hack include 19.7 million people who applied for a background investigation, as well as 1.8 million others who were not applicants."

--"The non-applicants were primarily spouses and cohabitants of the applicants, and their personal information was included in the background check forms the applicants were required to complete. The breach is likely to have affected any federal applicant over the past 15 years, and perhaps longer." 
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CAPITOL HILL POUNCES ON ARCHULETA - With those shocking revelations, the calls for OPM chief Katherine Archuleta's resignation ramped up about 10 levels Thursday as everyone from Speaker John Boehner to presidential candidate Marco Rubio called on Archuleta to step down. From Tal Kopan for POLITICO: "Boehner urged President Barack Obama to 'take a strong stand against incompetence in his administration' by replacing ... Archuleta .. [And Sen. John] McCain called the office's newest estimates of the data loss - the theft of security clearance data on 21.5 million people - 'nothing short of staggering.'"

--"Republican lawmakers say she was never qualified to run OPM. 'She ended up in this position because of her political and fundraising experience for the president, and she's had some experience in the government, but if you were to compare her background experience to the head of personnel for a large Fortune 100 company or Fortune 500 company, she probably would have difficulty to get that job,' Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) told POLITICO." 
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--Some of the toughest language came from Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, a Democrat whose state is home to a huge population of federal workers: "The technological and security failures at the Office of Personnel Management predate this director's term, but Director Archuleta's slow and uneven response has not inspired confidence that she is the right person to manage OPM through this crisis."

--But the OPM director is -at least so far - resisting those calls. The AP's Jack Gillum and Josh Lederman: Archuleta "said she has no plans to step down and is committed to continuing her work. The White House, which had previously said President Barack Obama was confident in Archuleta&#39;s leadership, said there was no change in its position." 
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CONFEDERATE FLAG DRAMA RIPS THROUGH HOUSE - The New York Times' Jennifer Steinhauer and Jonathan Weisman: "The anguished national debate over the future of the Confederate flag exploded on the House floor on Thursday as Democrats, led by black members from the South, beat back a push by Republicans to allow Confederate symbols at national cemeteries. Coming less than 24 hours after the South Carolina House voted to remove the Confederate battle flag from the capitol grounds in Columbia , the spectacle of the United States House pressing for its continuing display was an embarrassment Republican leaders could not accept, and they withdrew the bill from the floor."

--" 'There's not any room on federal property for the display of the Confederate battle flag,' said Representative John Lewis, Democrat of Georgia, a leader of the civil rights movement who in 1965 was nearly beaten to death at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., by club-wielding police officers, some of whom had Confederate flags painted on their helmets. 'It represents the dark past as a symbol of separation, a symbol of division, a symbol of hate.'" 
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--Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) doesn't mince words, saying in this CNN story from Athena Jones and Deirdre Walsh: "We put our heads like a pumpkin on a stick and we&#39;ve given them a baseball bat." 
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--Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) calls for a review of Confederate symbols and memorabilia, per the Washington Post's Paul Kane and Abby Phillip: 
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SCHUMER: DOOR'S OPEN ON SHORT-TERM HIGHWAY - Democrats (and many Republicans, for that matter) haven't been so keen on yet another short-term patch for the highway bill that Congress has to get done before the end of the month. But a top-ranking Senate Dem says it could happen, under the right conditions: "Democrats might be willing to accept a short-term U.S. highway funding measure this month if they believed Congress would pass tax legislation in the next few months, Senator Chuck Schumer said Thursday."

--" 'We need to see some broad support that people would have confidence that over the next three or four months we could actually get the international tax reform bill done,' Schumer of New York, the chamber's No. 3 Democrat, told reporters at the Capitol." From Bloomberg's Kathleen Miller and Richard Rubin: 
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OBAMA, DEMS HUDDLE ON EX-IM - Senate Democrats met privately with President Barack Obama on Wednesday to talk about how to get the Export-Import Bank revived, particularly if the wheels fall off the highway bill that many hope to attach an Ex-Im bill to. Among the scenarios discussed were tax extenders, though that&#39;s a risky bet given the late hour those seem to pass each year. Attendees left resolving to do whatever they can, but still lack a concrete backup plan.

--Among those at the meeting: Sens. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray of Washington, Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota.

THANK GOODNESS GRACIOUS IT'S FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2015 and welcome to the Huddle. Lauren French is taking over Huddle next week - you know the drill. Email her at 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - The House is in at 9 a.m. and voting on the Cures bill. Only series of votes will begin between 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. The Senate is - you guessed it - out. Back at 3 p.m. Monday.

AROUND THE HILL - Reps. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Reid Ribble (R-Wis.) will discuss the Highway Trust Fund at 10 a.m. at House Triangle.

NELSON TO UNDERGO SURGERY - Alex Leary for the Tampa Bay Times: "Sen. Bill Nelson will undergo prostate cancer surgery on Monday, his office said. A statement said it would not affect the Democrat&#39;s plans to run for re-election in 2018. 'Although he has had no symptoms, doctors found the cancer early in a routine medical exam. Extensive scans showed no signs of the cancer spreading outside the prostate,' the statement read." 
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TROUBLE FOR CURES BILL? In a week where House GOP leaders desperately needs a win, The Hill reports that the bipartisan medical bill top Republicans have been touting all week is running into some last-minute opposition: "The bill includes $8.75 billion over five years in new funding for medical research at the National Institutes of Health ... That spending is drawing fire from conservatives because it is mandatory, meaning it is not revisited each year through the appropriations process. Some Republicans oppose adding another spending program to the books and are upset that the move would bust budget caps put in place in 2011."

--"Meanwhile, some Democrats are railing against a late addition to the bill that includes Hyde Amendment language further restricting the use federal funds for abortion services. 'I cannot stand by while these provisions are slipped into an otherwise excellent bill through underhanded maneuvers that run contrary to our democratic process,' Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.) said Thursday." 
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HOUSE GOP TO HUDDLE WITH GOODELL - POLITICO's Jake Sherman: "NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is holding several large-scale private meetings with House Republicans next week, including sessions with top GOP leaders. On Monday, Rep. Steve Scalise is hosting Goodell at a closed meeting of his whip team, according to an invitation sent to lawmakers this week."

--"House Republican Conference Chairman Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington State is holding what she calls a 'Power House Lunch' with more than 40 lawmakers Tuesday, so they can hear leadership lessons from Goodell. Goodell will also meet with a group of GOP chiefs of staff ... Scalise has a close connection to the NFL. Nicole Gustafson, his former conservative coalition director, is one of the NFL's top D.C. lobbyists." 
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QOTD - Just because. The never-shy Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), who formally launched his bid for the Senate on Thursday: 'Frankly, one reason why Democrats are willing to crawl over hot coals naked to vote for me is because I&#39;m willing to tell the truth." From NBC News: 
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THURSDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Rick Valentine was the first person to correctly respond that Robert Taft was the sole Senate majority leader whose father, former President William Howard Taft, served as chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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