Subject: POLITICO Huddle, presented by the American Bankers Association - What does Kevin McCarthy do now? - GOP eyes targets beyond Planned Parenthood
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:46:06 -0600

By Lauren French | 11/06/2015 07:44 AM EDT

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

WHAT'S NEXT FOR KEVIN MCCARTHY? John Bresnahan with the story, "For the first time in his political career, Kevin McCarthy has tasted defeat. And for the first time, the House majority leader, who rocketed to No. 2 in leadership faster than many members land a committee chairmanship, is going to have to be content to stay where he is, possibly for years. When McCarthy ditched his bid for speaker last month - in the face of fierce opposition from the right, a major gaffe about his party's probe of the Benghazi attacks, and rumors about his personal life - some of his Republican colleagues wondered whether the majority leader would or even could stay in Congress. One top Republican said it
 was "50-50" that McCarthy would retire, and questioned whether he "really wants to be here now." But long before his aborted bid for the speakership, the affable California Republican built up a deep reservoir of good will within the GOP Conference. And he appears to still have the confidence of leadership - starting with new Speaker Paul Ryan - and rank-and-file members to remain majority leader." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab70af5b27b181be1342acc969af929e301bec3aed88e7df7fe

NEW SPEAKER CLINCHES WIN ON TRANSPORTATION. Heather Caygle and Lauren Gardner report, Speaker Paul Ryan just pulled off what no House leader has been able to do in a decade -corralling an unruly chamber into passing a massive, multiyear highway and transit bill. The measure would also revive the Export-Import Bank, a trade-promoting agency that expired last summer amid attacks from conservative lawmakers. The bill is an important first victory for Ryan, giving him something tangible to underpin his promises of a more open and collaborative legislative process. Shortly after Thursday's vote, Ryan played up his new, open era by pointing to the more than 100 amendment votes on the House floor
 allowed on this bill alone." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab7837234b78e21f7737f73a93905dd872a69a8290ac6d5c07c

GOP PICKING TARGETS BEYOND PLANNED PARENTHOOD. Kristina Peterson reports for the Wall Street Journal, "A number of congressional Republicans are moving away from making Planned Parenthood funding their biggest goal in coming spending battles and instead are looking to pick more winnable policy battles such as curbing the Internal Revenue Service or environmental regulations. Not all Republicans are willing to abandon a campaign popular among GOP voters and activists to strip federal funding from the women's health organization. But many GOP lawmakers in both the House and Senate say they don't want the issue to derail the spending bill needed to prevent a government shutdown when current
 funding expires on Dec. 11." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab7ca30c71e366765841386feed23f791f2d225696f9a8ea1d4

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FIRST LOOK: BEHIND-THE-SCENES OF THE RYAN SPEAKERSHIP. Speaker Paul Ryan will releases a behind-the-scenes video featuring footage from his first hours and days as speaker, including greeting visitors from his hometown after being sworn-in. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab7644a4af8826ecc1a35237ebf7ca53ec5fe3b5992d933f7e4 

FATTAH JR. FOUND GUILTY. Joseph Ax for Reuters, "The son of U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah of Philadelphia was found guilty on Thursday of defrauding banks to obtain business loans he used for personal expenses, including buying jewelry and paying casino gambling debts. Chaka Fattah Jr., 33, whose father is charged with corruption in an unrelated case, was convicted at trial in Philadelphia federal court of securing hundreds of thousands of dollars in fraudulent loans from several banks to fund a lavish lifestyle, federal prosecutors said. The elder Fattah, an 11-term Democratic congressman, was indicted in July in connection with alleged bribery and misuse of federal, charitable and
 campaign funds. He has denied those charges, which are separate from the fraud that his son was accused of perpetrating." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab7fb4aba7d2392217befffd9e5c11d80b60b4e8dc35170c3c7

BRADY OUTLINES WAYS AND MEANS GOALS. Richard Rubin for the Wall Street Journal, "Rep. Kevin Brady (R., Texas), who won a race this week to become the new chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has his sights set on lowering the nation's corporate tax rate. He's not waiting until 2017 for everything, seeing an opening for international tax changes next year. Mr. Brady, 60 years old, takes over from former Chairman Paul Ryan, the new House speaker, as one of the Republican Party's top voices on tax, trade and health policy. He spoke to the Journal in his Capitol Hill office, with a "Mr. Chairman" baseball cap on his desk - a gift from Jack Fields, whose 1996 retirement opened up the
 House seat Mr. Brady now holds." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab78af1dbb62c0cb65cf437a4e91d2b3232cdb8469c3b223ab3

CONGRESSIONAL CRITICS BLAST TPP. Adam Behsudi reports, "As the Obama administration extols the benefits of a massive Asia-Pacific trade deal unveiled Thursday, it is unlikely to mention how Peru can continue to limit performances by foreign circuses or that Chile can still ban foreigners as security guards. The exceptions, laid out in multiple annexes and embedded in various chapters of the 1,000-plus page Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, range from these obscure provisions to controversial measures that could make it harder for U.S. businesses to compete overseas - and not incidentally, cost congressional votes where there might be no margin for error for passage."

GYROCOPTER PILOT TO PLEAD GUILTY. Jessica Gresko reports for the AP, "Douglas Hughes has said repeatedly in recent months that he objected to doing "significant hard jail time" for landing a gyrocopter outside the U.S. Capitol to call attention to what he considers the influence of big money on politics. Hughes protested that no one got hurt in his "spectacular" act of civil disobedience last April 15, but prosecutors charged him with crimes that carried a potential of 9 &frac12; years in prison." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=615d5ea40aae9ab7762b08e2e6fff44f85dd6047220759f433e272d9f4bb84ac

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