Subject: POLITICO’S Huddle: OBAMA LOBBIES DEMS FROM VACATION — Corker comes out against Iran deal— PELOSI HEADS UP AMAZON EVENT — Planned Parenthood fires back — MORE CLINTON EMAILS DRAMA
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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 05:55:52 -0600

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OBAMA LOBBIES DEMOCRATS ON IRAN FROM VACATION. No August recess here. The New York Time's Julie Hirschfeld Davis: "From his rented vacation home on Martha's Vineyard with sweeping views of the Atlantic Ocean, President Obama has been making phone calls to Democratic members of Congress, trying to rally support for the nuclear deal with Iran that faces a vote next month. 'If you support the deal, we'd like you to make that clear,' he tells the lawmakers, according to a White House official who would describe the private calls only on condition of anonymity. 'And if you still have concerns, we want to be able to answer those questions.'" 
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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) today will announce his stance - though the former SFRC Chair doesn't carry the clout he once did since he's been indicted for corruption. 
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), meanwhile, is making the administration wait for his answer, which is ticking off liberal groups who back the deal, per Alex Bolton at The Hill. 
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... AND CALLS IN THE RELIGIOUS TROOPS TO SAVE THE IRAN DEAL. Here's one more reason to support the Iran deal: God would want you to. At least, that's the argument the administration is relying on faith-based groups to make to Hill Democrats. And they're stepping up their lobbying game ahead of an important congressional vote on the agreement, our foreign policy reporter Nahal Toosi reporters: "Over the weekend, the Rev. Al Sharpton called on black churches to mobilize in support of the nuclear deal. On Monday, a group of 340 rabbis from multiple strands of Judaism released a letter, urging lawmakers to vote for the agreement. And plans are in the works for a coordinated rollout of
 endorsements by a number of religious groups next week, an organizer said."

"The campaign is led largely by Catholic and Quaker groups, such as the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the Friends Committee on National Legislation, and it reflects many of the organizations' traditional anti-war stances. It also comes as themes of anti-Semitism and Islamism have risen in the debate." 
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Papal Blessing? Another big question, of course, is whether Pope Francis, who blessed the Iran deal, uses his September Hill speech to urge lawmakers to accept the agreement. His speech will come a few days after the congressional vote, but some at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops think he just might mention it - perhaps urging lawmaker to reconsider, or shaming them for not giving it a shot. It will make for some awkward headlines for Speaker John Bohener (R-Ohio), who's Catholic and was the one who invited his holiness in the first place.

CORKER COMES OUT AGAINST IRAN DEAL. In a huge blow to the Obama Administration, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker came out against the Iran deal Monday. Here's his Washington Post op-ed, entitled "Congress should reject the bad Iran deal," is here:"Rather than end Iran's nuclear enrichment program, over time this deal industrializes the program of the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. For a deal that must be built on verification and not trust, the inspections process is deeply flawed.

"Through verbal presentations regarding possible military dimensions, many in Congress are aware of the unorthodox arrangements agreed to by the International Atomic Energy Agency, the administration and our negotiating partners to keep from upsetting Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Those actual agreements remain secret, but we know that at best they are most unusual and speak to the P5+1's low commitment to holding Iran's feet to the fire." 
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CHUGGING COFFEE. It's just that kind of morning. Thanks for reading Huddle. It's Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015. Email your best congressional recess story pitch here: 
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TODAY IN CONGRESS: Nothing fun.

PELOSI HEADS UP AMAZON EVENT. The New York Times might be smacking Amazon for its dog-eat-dog environment and running its workers into the ground, but House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today will headline a speech sponsored in part by the Internet sale giant. Of course, this event highlights a cause of the California Democrat's: lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights. At 2:15 p.m., she will joining Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.) in Seattle for an LGBT event also co-sponsored by the Human Rights Campaign: "Beyond Marriage Equality with Amazon." Someone on the west coast go and let us know if workers' conditions come up? 
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PLANNED PARENTHOOD FIRES BACK. Anna Palmer on the women's health clinic moving from defense to offense: "Planned Parenthood, under assault from conservatives and at risk of losing its government funding, is firing back at critics with a new ad campaign and alleging their real aim is to outlaw abortion. After weeks of bad PR over videos of its executives discussing fetal tissue and organs, the group is unveiling a six-figure broadcast and cable ad buy Tuesday that will run in the states of four vulnerable Republican senators, according to details obtained by POLITICO. The lawmakers could be key to deciding whether a fight over the group's funding triggers a federal government shutdown this
 fall." 
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JUST AS... 

LAWMAKERS ASK DOJ FOR STATISTICS ON SALE OF FETAL TISSUE. Roll Call's Matt Fuller: "Following the controversial release of a string of undercover Planned Parenthood videos, House Republican leaders want to know if the Department of Justice is enforcing bans on the sale of fetal tissue. House Judiciary Chairman Robert W. Goodlatte and Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice Chairman Trent Franks sent a letter Monday to Attorney General Loretta Lynch asking the DOJ to turn over every complaint made against an organization or individual for selling fetal tissue.... [T]he two Republicans are calling on the DOJ to release the history of complaints regarding fetal body tissue
 sales and trafficking in the interest of "understanding the history of the enforcement of these laws at the Department of Justice." 
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HILLARY'S EMAIL PROBLEM THAT WON'T GO AWAY. My colleague Josh Gerstein on the "drip,drip,drip." "As the Democratic front-runner tried to shift attention to policy issues and the retail politics of Iowa, a series of developments in court and on Capitol Hill showed that Clinton's email saga is unlikely to end soon. A federal judge on Monday scheduled a hearing for later this week to discuss whether the State Department has ensured the retrieval of all official records Clinton, the former secretary of state, and her top aides held on personal email accounts or devices. This came after a lawyer for the technology firm that maintained Clinton's private server after she left office held out the
 prospect that at least some of the data is likely preserved on a backup server."

"New figures emerged in a court filing about the number of potentially classified messages held in Clinton's private account, now up to 305. And a Republican senator pressed Clinton's personal lawyer for answers on how the emails were stored and whether he had the security clearance to retain a thumb drive of potentially sensitive data." 
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SPOTTED. Speaker Boehner in Detroit Lakes, Minn. (Hat-tip Seung Min), per the Grand Forks Herald. 
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MONDAY&#39;S TRIVIA WINNER. Andrew Smith was the first to answer that President James Garfield was the first to install a very basic air conditioning system in the White House in 1881, to keep him cool as he lay dying from a gunshot wound that was being infected.

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