Subject: POLITICO's Huddle: Key democrats skeptical of Iran deal - Clinton woos Democrats – House set to vote on Highway extension
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KEY DEMOCRATS SKEPTICAL OF IRAN DEAL. Manu Raju and Burgess Everett report, "Joe Biden was on the phone Tuesday morning with a fellow Delaware native, Democratic Sen. Chris Coons, hoping to lock down his support for the Obama administration's sweeping nuclear accord with Iran. But the vice president quickly learned the administration has a lot more work to do with congressional Democrats. After the 30-minute call, in which Biden walked Coons through his concerns, the senator ticked off a list of technical questions that he wanted the administration to answer thoroughly. Coons said the talk with Biden was helpful, but until he hears more, he's reserving judgment on the deal...Coons is among
 a group of roughly a dozen Democratic senators who constitute President Barack Obama's firewall on the Iran deal. In interviews with several of them Tuesday, it was clear the White House has its work cut out to shore up a veto-proof foundation: In the Senate, the White House can lose no more than 12 Democrats from the 46-member caucus to keep the deal alive." 
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CLINTON WOOS DEMOCRATS. Your Huddle author and Burgess have the story, "Progressives have criticized Hillary Clinton for being too close to Wall Street. They've questioned her rhetoric on poverty and education. In early voting states they've come out in droves for her chief competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders. But on Tuesday, even some of the most ardent populists in Congress had nothing but praise for the 2016 Democratic front-runner during her day trip to Capitol Hill, after peppering her with questions on income inequality, early childhood education and criminal justice reform. 'She sounded good,' said Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), who has not endorsed in the presidential race and been
 critical of Clinton in the past. 'She came out of the box saying that the problem facing the American average worker is income, and I'm like 'yeah, absolutely.' I was really pleased to hear that.'" 
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HOUSE SET TO VOTE ON HIGHWAY EXTENSION. Joan Lowy writes for the AP, "Faced with the prospect of a shutdown in highway and transit aid to states, the House is due to take up a bill to temporarily shore up funding for transportation programs for the 35th time since 2009. The House bill on the schedule Wednesday would scrape together $8 billion to keep programs going through Dec. 18, but the Senate is moving in a different direction. Senate Republican leaders are trying to quickly cobble together a longer-term, more comprehensive bill that would pay for programs for possibly as long as six years. Congress is under pressure to act quickly. Authority for transportation programs expires on July
 31, which would eliminate the Transportation Department's ability to process promised aid payments to states." 
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GOOD MORNING, it's Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Welcome to The Huddle, your play-by-play guide to everything Capitol Hill. Yesterday was Bastille Day - a once-a-year celebration that brings out the Francophone in us all. Hope you enjoyed all the baguettes and bries. Have some good gossip? Let me know at 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - First votes are expected between 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. and 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. The Senate will hold a vote at 10 a.m.

AROUND THE HILL - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Ranking Member Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.) and Ranking Member Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) will showcase photos taken of crimes perpetuated against Syrian civilians. The event begins at 9:30 a.m. in the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center, Congressional Auditorium.

Rep. Bill Flores and Sen. Ted Cruz will discuss the Export-Import Bank at the House Triangle at 10:30 a.m. Rep. Rosa DeLauro will discuss SNAP in HVC-100 at 11 a.m. Rep. Chris Smith will discuss Planned Parenthood at 2 p.m. in HVC-114. Sens. Warren, Murray, Murphy, Schumer, Brown and Franken will introduction the Schedules That Work Act at 2 p.m. in SD-G11.

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BIPARTISAN COALITION FORMS AROUND CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM. "As President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening called on Congress to take up criminal justice reform, a bipartisan group on Capitol Hill was putting the final touches on a sentencing overhaul deal to be announced as soon as next week...The prospects for such legislation seem good, given that lawmakers from both parties have been wrangling with a reform bill for months. Tuesday, for example, the House Oversight Committee became at least the third congressional panel to highlight problems in the justice system, inviting two governors, a handful of senators, House members and experts to discuss a path forward for reducing the number of
 inmates in federal prisons. Hours later, the House officially formed the Congressional Criminal Justice and Public Safety Caucus, which will include justice reform supporters." 
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AS LONG PREDICTED, EX-IM GETS WRAPPED INTO HIGHWAY FIGHT. Bernie Becker and Kevin Cirilli report for The Hill, "House Republicans are going on offense in the fight over the expiration of the Export-Import Bank, seeking to preempt the Senate with quick passage of a short-term highway bill. The House highway bill, which is expected to get a vote on Wednesday, includes bipartisan offsets intended to assuage Democrats, who want to see the bank's charter reauthorized and a longer extension of infrastructure projects....till, House Republicans acknowledge they face plenty of obstacles in making sure Ex-Im stays on the scrap heap following the expiration of the embattled bank's charter at the end
 of June." 
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IRAN DEAL LAUNCHES LOBBYING WAR. Tarini Parti and Anna Palmer report, "The White House, facing the wrath of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies in Washington, held a conference call on Tuesday to persuade Jewish groups to give President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran a chance. Their message: Kindly hold your fire. Top officials on the call included U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Arms Control at the National Security Council Jon Wolfsthal... The two sides are launching multi-pronged national media campaigns, working back channels in the Capitol and activating their grass-roots networks - each side claiming to
 represent Israel's best interests." 
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CONGRESS HONORS OBERSTAR. Colby Itkowitz reports for the Washington Post, "It was curious timing for House members to honor the late Democratic congressman Jim Oberstar. On Monday evening, they voted to rename a post office after Oberstar in his hometown of Chisholm, Minn. Several members spoke on the floor about his deep institutional memory, passion for everything transportation and all-around collegiality. But as Oberstar was being memorialized by his former colleagues, a Republican plan was being hatched to place another Band-Aid over the gaping, oozing wound that is federal highway program funding. Whatever short-term fix is agreed to, it will be just another patch to temporarily
 staunch the bleeding, when what's really needed is invasive surgery." 
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