Subject: POLITICO Huddle: Planned Parenthood funding fight looming – Fattah says he’s running for re-election – Democratic donors back Iran deal
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Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2015 05:57:51 -0600

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PLANNED PARENTHOOD FUNDING FIGHT LOOMING. Burgess Everett and John Bresnahan report, "Republicans are divided over whether they should use this fall's government funding bill to attack Planned Parenthood - and risk a high-stakes shutdown fight - after Senate Democrats blocked a standalone bill to defund the organization on Monday evening. On one side is presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who's pushing Republicans to do everything within their power to strip the organization of federal support after Monday's bill failed to clear a filibuster, 53-46. But a group of veteran Republican legislators is urging a more cautious approach, and reminding GOP colleagues that just two years
 ago their fight to defund Obamacare via a government funding bill produced a disastrous shutdown without making a dent on the Affordable Care Act. And yet some feel the fight is inevitable... But the issue is not going away no matter how many times the Senate holds a failed procedural vote. The anti-abortion Center for Medical Progress - the group behind a multiyear effort to secretly tape Planned Parenthood employees - is expected to continue releasing more controversial videos in the coming weeks and months...." 
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FATTAH SAYS HE'S RUNNING FOR RE-ELECTION. Cherri Gregg reports for CBS' local Philadelphia affiliate, "Congressman Chaka Fattah made his first local appearance Monday, and told reporters he has no plans of stepping down. This comes less than a week after he was indicted on multiple counts of conspiracy, bribery and other charges... 'I am innocent,' Fattah said. 'I'm going to do my work on behalf of the people who elected me, and I am going to be a candidate for re-election in my district next year.'" 
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SCHOCK BUYS STAKE IN MENARDS. Anna Palmer and Jake Sherman report, "Aaron Schock's final financial disclosure details his purchase of a corporation that involves financial dealings with donors. The former Illinois congressman reported one transaction for a limited liability corporation, Menards Peoria LLC, according to his financial disclosure termination filed July 31. Schock reported buying Menards Peoria for a purchase price between $500,000 and $1 million in May 2014. At the same time, Schock estimated that he received $15,000 to $50,000 in rent on the property." 
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CYBERSECURITY BILL HAS HURDLES STILL IN SENATE. Damian Paletta and Kristina Peterson report for the Wall Street Journal, "It was expected to be one of the few bills to move through Congress this year: legislation that encouraged the federal government and private businesses to work more closely to prevent cyberattacks. But a series of setbacks, and a tightening Senate legislative schedule, have scrambled efforts by the White House and lawmakers to push through the bill, called the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) took steps Monday to set up the first procedural vote on the bill Wednesday, shortly before lawmakers are scheduled to depart
 for more than a month. The bill had easily passed the Senate Intelligence Committee in March, but it has idled since then among a crowded Senate roster of bills." 
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DEMOCRATIC DONORS: WE SUPPORT IRAN DEAL. Nahal Toosi reports, "More than 120 wealthy Democratic donors have written to the party's leadership in Congress to express support for the Iran nuclear deal, the latest move in a fierce battle for votes on the historic agreement. The letter, whose signatories include Hollywood producer Norman Lear, several retired ambassadors and members of the uber-wealthy Democracy Alliance donor network, warns lawmakers that scuttling the deal 'would put us back on a path to a nuclear-armed Iran, another costly military campaign - or both.'" 
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GOOD MORNING, it's Tuesday, August 04, 2015. Welcome to The Huddle, your play-by-play guide to everything Capitol Hill. How many coffees do you have scheduled at the creamery today? Learn any good gossip? Let me know at 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - Senators killing time before the cybersecurity vote later in the week and House staffers finding innovative ways to make it to 4 p.m.

ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK (SUIT). Sen. Ron Johnson will hold a hearing today examining the $7 billion federal prison system, including programs that fail to reduce recidivism and the societal impact of mass incarceration. The Republican invited Piper Kerman, author of "Orange is the New Black", and Jerome Dillard, a former federal inmate from Madison to testify, along with Charles E. Samuels Jr., the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and Michael E. Horowitz, an inspector general with the Department of Justice. Tune in here: 
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THIS PROBABLY WON'T SIT WELL WITH CONGRESS. Via Reuters, "In the weeks leading up to a critical annual U.S. report on human trafficking that publicly shames the world's worst offenders, human rights experts at the State Department concluded that trafficking conditions hadn't improved in Malaysia and Cuba. And in China, they found, things had grown worse. The State Department's senior political staff saw it differently - and they prevailed. A Reuters examination, based on interviews with more than a dozen sources in Washington and foreign capitals, shows that the government office set up to independently grade global efforts to fight human trafficking was repeatedly overruled by senior
 American diplomats and pressured into inflating assessments of 14 strategically important countries in this year's Trafficking in Persons report." 
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ROSKAM: WE HAVE THE VOTES TO DISAPPROVE OF IRAN. Deb Riechmann&thinsp;writes for the AP, "House Republicans said Monday that they have the GOP votes to disapprove of the Iran nuclear deal as Democrats stepped up their support of the agreement the Obama administration and other world powers negotiated with Tehran. Since Republicans hold a commanding 246 seats in the House, it was widely expected that the GOP would come up with 218 votes to support a resolution of disapproval, which has been introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam, R-Ill." 
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CURBELODIAGNOSED WITH WHOOPING COUGH. The Miami Herald reports, "U.S. Rep. Carlos Curbelo of Miami finally received a confirmed diagnosis Monday for the illness that has plagued him for nearly a month: He has pertussis, better known as whooping cough. The lab results prompted Curbelo&#39;s doctor in the Capitol to notify the Washington D.C. health department, which told the Republican congressman it will report the case to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Whooping cough is a contagious respiratory infection tracked by public-health experts." 
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ETHICAL CHARGE EMERGES IN DUCKWORTH-KIRK RACE. Alan Scher Zagier reports for the Associated Press, "A civil lawsuit alleging ethics violations nearly a decade ago has become an issue in a Democratic congresswoman&#39;s bid to unseat first-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk in what is expected to be one of the country&#39;s most competitive 2016 Senate races.The complaint alleging workplace retaliation was filed by two employees of a southern Illinois veterans&#39; home against Tammy Duckworth, now a Chicago area congresswoman who at the time led the Illinois Department of Veterans Affairs." 
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TWO SCHUMERS PUSH FOR GUN CONTROL. Seung Min Kim reports, "Sen. Chuck Schumer teamed up with another Schumer - actress and comedian Amy - on Monday to push for stricter gun-control laws. The two Schumers held a news conference in New York to unveil a new proposal drafted by the senator meant to prevent violent criminals, abusers and those with mental illnesses from obtaining guns. The push comes in the wake of the shooting in Lafayette, Louisiana, last month at a screening of Amy Schumer's new movie "Trainwreck," at which two women were killed and at least nine other people were injured." 
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DON'T MISS VIDEO: FORMER REP. JOHN DINGELL READS MEAN TWEETS ABOUT HIMSELF. The prolific tweeter shares comments from the peanut gallery - and inspires your Huddle author to make a wish-list of politicians she would like to see follow in Dingell's footsteps. It's a long recess, OK? 
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CONGRESS GETS A FAILING GRADE FOR ACRONYMS. This is what recess is made for. Philip Bump with the Washington Post ranks each the cleverness of each acronym bill introduced this Congress. "Politicians love acronyms. Love them. Like medicines that bear the scientific name of hexaflourodiazeprine but are marketed as Happinex, politicians give bills acronyms to make them easier to remember and refer to -- and, sometimes, easier to swallow. So far in this Congress, still less than a year old, there have been over 350 acronym-bills introduced in the House and Senate.And we know this, because we ranked them all by quality." 
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TRANSITIONS. Bronwyn Lance Chester has joined Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) staff as communications director and chief spokesperson for the Senate Republican Policy Committee. Lance Chester is an alumna of Sen. Jeff Flake's and Sen. Saxby Chambliss' offices

MONDAY'S ANSWER- Kevin Cain, the director of governmental affairs for the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, was the first to name Carl Vinson as the long-serving member of congress who had a supercarrier named in his honor.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - Kevin had today's question. Like current senator and presidential candidate Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, what other Southern senator made a name for himself as a defense hawk, and was also a lifelong bachelor? The first person to email 
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