Subject: Iran deal foes spend big – but will anything come from it? -- Obama courts a familiar Republican on nuclear agreement
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OBAMA EYES FLAKE AS IRAN ALLY. Burgess Everett reports, "With Senate Democrats locking down more support to prevent the two-thirds majority needed to block a nuclear deal with Iran, President Barack Obama is concentrating on another goal - picking off at least one Republican to support it. He is down to one target: Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake. Two weeks ago, Flake found himself surrounded by Democrats on Air Force Once headed to Africa, having joined Obama for his first trip to the continent while in office. The in-flight entertainment was obvious from the moment the trip was announced: a long, laborious discussion of the Iran deal. Obama's pursuit of Flake, a rock-ribbed fiscal conservative
 who's broken with his party on foreign policy in the past, shows how far the president is willing to go to secure his legacy-defining nuclear agreement." 
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IRAN DEAL FOES SPEND BIG. John Bresnahan and Anna Palmer report, "Pro-Israel groups have spent more than $11 million on a TV ad blitz aimed at scuttling President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran, but so far they aren't gaining any ground with House and Senate Democrats. Citizens for a Nuclear Free Iran, created by the powerful American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has shelled out more than $11 million since mid-July running ads pressuring lawmakers to vote against the deal when it comes before Congress next month, according to totals compiled by the Tracking Firm, a data company. The group has been running network TV ads in 23 states, spending more than $1 million in California,
 Florida, New York and Texas, respectively." 
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FBI INVESTIGATES CLINTON EMAILS. Carol D. Leonnig, Rosalind S. Helderman and Tom Hamburger write for the Washington Post, "The FBI has begun looking into the security of Hillary Rodham Clinton's private e-mail setup, contacting in the past week a Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the unusual system, according to two government officials.Also last week, the FBI contacted Clinton's lawyer, David Kendall, with questions about the security of a thumb drive in his possession that contains copies of work e-mails Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state.The FBI's interest in Clinton's e-mail system comes after the intelligence community's inspector general referred the
 issue to the Justice Department in July. Intelligence officials expressed concern that some sensitive information was not in the government's possession and could be "compromised." The referral did not accuse Clinton of any wrongdoing, and the two officials said Tuesday that the FBI is not targeting her." 
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DEMS DEMAND AMENDMENTS ON CYBERSECURITY BILL.Seung Min Kim and Burgess Everett report, "Senate Democrats are ramping up the pressure on Republicans to allow some amendments to a cybersecurity bill this week, even though there's some division in their own ranks about the merits of the information-sharing measure.Five privacy-minded Democratic senators said they were seeking "a reasonable number of amendments" for the cybersecurity legislation, in a letter delivered Tuesday to their leader, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has teed the bill up for Senate action later this week.As it now stands, the Senate will hold a procedural vote on whether to
 proceed to the cybersecurity legislation on Wednesday morning." 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - There is 1 votes scheduled in the Senate at 10:30 a.m. Members of the Senate Foreign Relation Committee will meet with IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano at 11:30 in S-116.Senator Tester will discuss food labeling in S-115 at 1:30 p.m.

AROUND THE HILL - Sens. Kirk, Ernst, Manchin and Gillibrand with launch the 9/11 Veterans Caucus during an event with Starbucks and Uber officials to discuss veteran employment. The event is at 3:30 pm. in SDG-11. At 2p.m., Sens. Thune, Hatch, McCain, Capito and Inhofe will hold a press conference in the Senate Radio/TV gallery tomorrow to tout the work the Senate has accomplished during the last seven months.

SINEMA LIKELY OUT FOR ARIZONA SENATE RACE. Roll Call's Eli Yokley reports, "Among her peers in Arizona's congressional delegation, there was a time when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema seen as a top prospect to carry the Democratic Party's mantle against Republican Sen. John McCain when he seeks re-election next year.But after a court last month upheld the state's congressional map drawn by an independent commission and thus, the makeup of her Democratic-leaning House district, national Democrats think that Sinema, one of the party's rising stars, might just wait for another opportunity down the road... Sinema had been a top contender among Democrats to seek the seat. Being from Tempe, she has risen in
 politics in the populous Phoenix media market, unlike Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, the party's sole candidate, who represents the rural eastern part of the state." 
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NELSON BACKS IRAN DEAL. Gabrielle Levy reports for US News, "Florida Sen. Bill Nelson, one of the Democrats key to preventing Congress from sinking a deal aimed at stopping Iran from building a nuclear weapon, announced on Tuesday that he will back the agreement. Nelson offered a forceful argument in favor of supporting the deal struck in July by the U.S. and five other world powers with Iran. Congress will have an opportunity to weigh in on the pact after lawmakers return from August recess in September." 
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HUNTER STAFFER ARRESTED FOR CARRYING LOADED GUN.From NBC San Diego's R. Stickney, "Gunnery Sgt. Peter Boby, a congressional fellow in the Corps&#39; Office of Legislative Affairs for U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter, Jr. (R-Calif.), was arrested Tuesday after being stopped at a security checkpoint near a House office building at approximately 2 p.m., according to the U.S. Capitol Police. Officers say a loaded .45 caliber gun was found during an inspection of a car at Washington Avenue and C Street. Boby will be booked on charges of carrying a pistol without a license, unregistered ammunition, and unregistered firearm, police said. He was being processed at Capitol Police headquarters." 
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