Subject: POLITICO Huddle, Presented by Visa: McConnell says Republicans will have to wait until 2017 for conservative agenda – Biden courts black lawmakers
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Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:01:52 -0600

09/14/2015 08:00AM EDT

By Lauren French ([email-masked] & @laurennfrench)

Keep calm and wait until 2017. Burgess Everett and John Bresnahan have an interview with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who said he'd keep his agenda moderate until 2017. "Republicans have a real chance to achieve a wish-list of conservative action items - but most of it will have to wait until 2017, when a Republican president takes office. Until then, the Kentucky Republican is intent on steering the GOP away from a politically disastrous government shutdown this month and avoiding the kinds of headlines that could damage his party's chances of winning the Oval Office, not to mention his own prospects of remaining majority leader beyond next year. Reversing President Barack
 Obama's Iran deal, stopping his executive orders on labor and climate policy ... even serious entitlement reform will be within reach if Republicans can hold on to the Senate and take the White House next year, McConnell said. Nine months after claiming his long-sought prize of Republican majority leader, the cagey Senate leader is entering what could be a decisive three-month stretch with lots of headaches: Defusing the conflict over Planned Parenthood and government funding, figuring out a long-term deal on infrastructure, raising the debt ceiling and managing four Republican colleagues running for president with their own priorities - all while dealing with the Senate's filibuster rules
 and languid pace." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9149a5ac0e5c2d2e3069ed61c71cbae3bcfcac26cbae36ad6c3c98bc4e509a16

Biden courts black lawmakers. Edward-Isaac Dovere reports, "Continuing his pre-presidential campaign, Vice President Joe Biden will head to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation convention in Washington this weekend, according to sources familiar with the planning. Biden's expected to attend the Phoenix Awards dinner on Saturday night, joining President Barack Obama, who will be headlining the event at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, and may participate in other parts of the convention as well. If he gets into the 2016 race, Biden will be banking on a strong showing with the African-American community, particularly in South Carolina, where he'd be focusing most of his early
 state campaign energy." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9149a5ac0e5c2d2ee01d2caa2b9df8766a39cfe3705217bfa04a34b4746f1802

Ahead of pope visit, U.S. disrupts threat. Abby Ohlheiser writes for the Washington Post, "American authorities are "monitoring very closely" any potential threats against Pope Francis and have already "disrupted one particular case" ahead of the pope's visit to the United States, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul said Sunday on ABC's "This Week." Rep. McCaul (R-Tex.), when asked how he felt about security preparations ahead of the papal visit next week, said he was "concerned" and has been briefed by the Secret Service on the matter." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9149a5ac0e5c2d2ee6a4de29bc7541a28c9532ae6bb01e33c3f88626e47f9e6f

It's Monday, September 14, 2015 and welcome to the Huddle, where we are wishing our celebrating friends a happy new year. You can reach me at [email-masked] or find me on Twitter at @laurennfrench.

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HILL MOVES. Rep. Steve King announced late last week that his deputy chief of staff, Sarah Stevens, has been named chief of staff. Stevens has been with the Iowa Republican since she graduated college three years ago.

Kim Atterbury, a longtime senior staffer for the Congressional Black Caucus, emailed friends to say she would leave the Hill at the end of September to join West End Strategy. 

Grayson says intelligence community lacks intelligence. Marc Caputo reports for POLITICO Florida, "Alan Grayson, Florida's most outspoken congressman, has found a new target to insult: the "stupid" U.S. intelligence community, which he accuses of "faking" reports about Syria. Grayson's mockery of the nation's spymasters, the Obama administration and the generals who brief Congress was captured on an undercover video shot during a fundraiser in California, where the Democratic U.S. Senate candidate spoke to the Progressive Democrats of the Santa Monica Mountains, which gave him an award." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9149a5ac0e5c2d2ec039509f2046c29c97f29ce245a483dd1fa2b8f631ef26bc

Liberals warn Fed on interest rates. Zachary Warmbrodt reports, "When Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen visited Cleveland in July, Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown accompanied her at a couple of events and used the opportunity to make a suggestion: Be cautious about hiking interest rates...As the Federal Reserve nears a decision Thursday on whether to raise rates for the first time in nine years, Yellen and her team are facing mounting political pressure to hold off - not just from economists concerned about risks abroad and market turmoil, but also from progressives who say the central bank has a duty to address economic disparities by keeping interest rates low. In a reflection of the populist
 wave sweeping national politics, Senate and House Democrats are stepping up their calls for the Fed to resist a rate increase, bolstered by an intensifying campaign waged by labor and community groups." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=9149a5ac0e5c2d2e241128b51d868cf22d85a4f7ca79cbd70d03ecedf2b40c7a

Clinton's google cache. Josh Gerstein reports, "Classified emails passed through commercial email services like Google and AOL on their path to or from a private server maintained by Hillary Clinton when she was secretary of state, but so far, the government appears to have done little to retrieve or secure the messages. A POLITICO review of Clinton emails made public by the State Department shows that at least 55 messages now deemed to include classified information appear to have been sent to or from private accounts other than Clinton's. That number is certain to grow substantially as State processes all Clinton emails and sorts through emails turned over to the department by several of
 her top aides. " http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=ee16dbdce98070f2c9b052778d36fd31118896faee2ad259a9cc607e64267b83

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