Subject: POLITICO Huddle: Lawmakers want to tie Export-Import Bank to Israeli support -- Turkey shoots down Russian plane -- The next congressional cliff
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Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 08:06:05 -0600

11/24/2015 09:04 AM EDT

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

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK NOW TIED TO ISRAELI POLITICS. Burgess Everett and John Bresnahan with the scoop, "A new wrinkle is coming to the debate over the future of the Export-Import Bank: The politics of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Congress next month is expected to resuscitate the government credit agency that's been shuttered since July. But senators from both parties are pitching a condition: that applicants for loans essentially vouch support for the Israeli economy in order to be approved. The move, described by multiple sources, is meant to counter a pro-Palestinian campaign to undermine Israeli exports because of its occupation of the West Bank and blockade of the Gaza Strip. Some Ex-Im
 supporters fret that injecting Middle East politics into the equation could complicate their efforts to revive the bank in the face of heavy opposition from conservatives. But a bipartisan group of lawmakers is coalescing behind the popular proposal, which the White House is expected to oppose, aides said Monday." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c3a87bf60b3022124c48b3498b5d0829857cf145f73597292

THE NEXT CLIFF..... Darren Goode and Andrew Restuccia report, "Call it the climate cliff. On Dec. 11, Obama administration diplomats will be in Paris working to clinch a global climate deal that will hinge on whether they can back up a pledge to provide billions of dollars to help poor countries deal with climate change. That same day, Republicans back in Washington will be trying to hold that money hostage with a government shutdown hanging in the balance... Congress must pass a new spending bill by Dec. 11, when a stopgap measure expires. The simultaneous deadlines on each side of the Atlantic Ocean give Republicans a tool to derail a legacy-defining pact for the president and score a
 rare victory on climate policy. They also significantly raise the stakes in this year's game of shutdown chicken." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c50af8b0e02ef5ea520978dbc0cdd4f56272ae88733d32dd6

...SENATORS WANT 'ADVICE AND CONSENT' AUTHORITY ON THE CLIMATE PACT. A bipartisan group of senators introduced a resolution last week expressing the sense of the Senate that any agreement reached at the climate talks in Paris next month "shall have no force or effect" unless the Senate gives its "advice and consent." According to the resolution jointly introduced on Thursday by Senators Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Roy Blunt (R-MO.), "no funds shall be authorized in support of that protocol, amendment, extension or other agreement, including for the Green Climate Fund, until that protocol, amendment, extension, or other agreement has been submitted to Senate for advice and
 consent..." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c2f04c63181ac92c0b44e5a260a1212221d10f24dc1d87235

DEVELOPING: TURKEY SHOOTS DOWN RUSSIAN PLANE NEAR SYRIA. Ceylan Yeginsu and Neil MacFarquhar for the New York Times, "Turkish fighter jets on patrol near the Syrian border on Tuesday shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West. The Turkish prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, ordered the Foreign Ministry to consult with NATO and the United Nations over this episode, his office said in a statement, without elaborating. NATO announced that it would hold an emergency meeting on Tuesday in Brussels to discuss the downing. In his first remarks on the incident, President Vladimir V.
 Putin of Russia confirmed that an F-16 Turkish fighter jet had shot down the Russian jet, a Sukhoi SU-24, with an air-to-air missile. But he insisted that the Russian jet had been in Syrian airspace at the time and had never threatened Turkey's territory." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318cdb6698f85b7e2a91a660a9794b096cf2211e8d3cedc8f99d

WELCOME, it is Tuesday, November 24, 2015. Thanks for reading Huddle. Your author has been spreading the gospel of a dry brine for turkey to her skeptical family all week. What's your favorite turkey tip? You can find me at [email-masked] and @laurennfrench on Twitter. 

TODAY IN CONGRESS: A little bit of this and a little bit of that but mostly a whole lot of nothing. 

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Huddle will celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday and Friday by going dark. We'll return in all our glory Monday morning. Burgess will have the reins so make sure to email him with any tips at [email-masked]. 

EX-BENGHAZI STAFFER SUES PANEL. Rachael Bade, "The ex-GOP House Benghazi Committee investigator who accused the panel of conducting a partisan witch hunt against Hillary Clinton filed suit Monday against the committee and Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) for wrongful termination and defamation. Air Force Reserve Maj. Brad Podliska in his court filing alleged he was fired from his post in June because he took leave for active duty. He also says he was singled out because he refused to focus his investigative work on Clinton and the State Department. The Benghazi Committee and Gowdy have denied both accusations, arguing that the panel, which employs several former military officers and law
 enforcement agents, would never punish a military member for his service." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c21253136223b621c39f3ec63f5dcb60ff4d822f0df65eac7

MERGER REINVIGORATES TAX DEBATE. Katy O'Donnell reports, "Pfizer's blockbuster $160 billion merger with Irish pharmaceutical maker Allergan is stoking the partisan debate on corporations that move their headquarters overseas to lessen their U.S. tax bills - with Democrats like Hillary Clinton quickly condemning the deal while Republicans called it a symptom of a broken tax code. The proposed merger would be the biggest inversion ever and create the world's largest pharmaceutical company. It would let Pfizer shift its legal corporate residence to Ireland to lower its adjusted tax rate to between 17 and 18 percent, down from Pfizer's current 25 percent effective rate." 
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SENATE MAJORITY LEADERS, THEY'RE JUST LIKE US. Mitch McConnell goes tailgating to celebrate Kentucky Cardinals. "There is no blue here," the senator quips. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318cc3899570f0bbb3b94a1516408127a394d97d43bde7af70a1 (h/t Seung Min Kim)

TOO GOOD NOT TO SHARE: CONGRESSIONAL PANTIES. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c1a7b9afef271e6d1995dafca449ad1ba0e09edc6b22acef7 (h/t Daniel Lippman).

IT IS THE MOST MAGICAL TIME OF THE YEAR. The Capitol Christmas Tree arrives in D.C. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c6ea90aff5e9dc6b9225fe5e020e890fad16e9aec092179b2

MORE ON THE SENATE FALLOUT FROM VITTER RACE. Erica Werner with the AP, "Republicans' plans to defend their Senate majority in 2016 just got a bit more complicated. GOP Sen. David Vitter's loss in Louisiana's governor's race over the weekend, and his decision to leave the Senate next year rather than seek re-election, creates an open seat that Republicans will have to defend. It's a deep-red Southern state and the GOP will be heavily favored, but Democrats hope they might have a shot, especially with a newly elected Democratic governor, John Bel Edwards, as an unanticipated asset." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c03f2c9676ea2d39251f9b43f18b1c4fa73da829b2752bd2e

POMPEO: MY WIFE GAVE ME AN 'F' FOR BENGHAZI QUESTIONING. Megan Apper with BuzzFeed News, Republican Rep. Mike Pompeo, a member of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, said that his son and wife gave him lower grades than he expected on his performance at the Benghazi committee hearings last month. During a speech at the Wichita Pachyderm Club last week, Pompeo told the gathered audience that he thought he'd done well at the Benghazi hearing - unlike the "C" and "F" his family gave him, on his line of questioning to Clinton." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=0e398d644362318c177c2bf4b9286d9388fe5ae05026976ec0c9197da11661e4

MONDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER: Justin Arnold was the first to correctly answer that FDR was the president that established Thanksgiving as the fourth Thursday in November.

TODAY'S TRIVIA: Justin goes deeper in executive orders and the presidents. While Franklin Roosevelt signed a law to make Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of November, many presidents before him did not feel that it was appropriate for the chief executive to be giving thanks to a higher power. Name the president who ceased releasing Thanksgiving proclamations, and the president who restarted the practice. The first one to email the correct answers to [email-masked] gets a mention in tomorrow's Huddle.

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