Subject: POLITICO Huddle: Paris attacks spur debate on bulk collection renewal - Frays emerge in coalition eyeing criminal justice reform
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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:13:50 -0600

By Lauren French | 11/25/2015 09:12 AM EDT

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

PARIS ATTACKS SPUR DEBATE ON BULK COLLECTION RENEWAL. Karoun Demirjian for the Washington Post, 'A bid to step up government surveillance in the wake of the Paris attacks is whipping up old fervor to extend the National Security Administration's authority to collect Americans' phone records in bulk - right as the controversial program is expiring. Hawkish Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is leading a late-breaking charge to reinstate the program, citing the ISIS-linked terror attacks in France... Cotton has corralled some influential supporters for reviving the collection: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John
 McCain (R-Ariz.) and perhaps most importantly, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), all of whom have all signed on as co-sponsors of the legislation." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd4066e2138f97868023924aeb3738118f6c7321776f4b4b9d50

FRAYS EMERGE AMONG CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM COALITION. Matt Apuzzo and Eric Lipton report for the New York Times, "For more than a year, a rare coalition of liberal groups and libertarian-minded conservatives has joined the Obama administration in pushing for the most significant liberalization of America's criminal justice laws since the beginning of the drug war. That effort has had perhaps no ally more important than Koch Industries, the conglomerate owned by a pair of brothers who are well-known conservative billionaires. Now, as Congress works to turn those goals into legislation, that joint effort is facing its most significant test - over a House bill that Koch Industries says would
 make the criminal justice system fairer, but that the Justice Department says would make it significantly harder to prosecute corporate polluters, producers of tainted food and other white-collar criminals. The tension among the unlikely allies emerged over the last week as the House Judiciary Committee, with bipartisan support, approved a package of bills intended to simplify the criminal code and reduce unnecessarily severe sentences." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd40121508cdd01176d959ed8f7542485ab6f1faeb6732e278b1

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INHOFE COULD ATTEND PARIS CLIMATE TALKS. Elise Viebeck with the Washington Post, "Sen. Jim Inhofe (Okla.) doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of changing minds at the Paris climate summit. But as the Senate's leading denier of climate change, he might go anyway, just for the fun of dissenting. Inhofe is a figure loathed by climate activists for his position on global warming. The 81-year-old calls climate change a hoax perpetrated by Hollywood liberals and environmental extremists to control Americans' lives. In February, he famously tossed a snowball on the Senate floor as if to prove that the world is not, in fact, getting warmer." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd40a4ec2a07c5913a189741811eadd2bb39ae11968f65574e7c

A SHOWDOWN WITH THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE. Lisa Rein reports for the Washington Post, "A top House lawmaker's confrontation with government researchers over a groundbreaking climate change study is provoking a national backlash from scientists, who say his campaign represents the most serious threat Congress has posed to scientific freedom. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, has subpoenaed scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and demanded that they turn over internal e-mails related to their research. Their findings contradicted earlier work showing that global warming had paused, and Smith, a
 climate change skeptic, has accused them of altering global temperature data and rushing to publish their research in the June issue of the journal Science." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd4040faf1ddfb1325b048b9f5d7b12c24abea4e38da97ce06f6

A LOOMING EDUCATION OVERHAUL. Russell Berman for the Atlantic, "In the next few weeks, a bipartisan majority in Congress is likely to pass a law that, in various ways, repudiates the education legacies of both the Bush and Obama presidencies. House and Senate negotiators last week agreed to a legislative framework replacing George W. Bush's signature No Child Left Behind law, a landmark reform of K-12 education placing strict federal requirements on states and schools that proved unworkable over time and led to a culture of testing that drew criticism from liberals and conservatives alike. While some federal benchmarks for accountability will remain in place, the new bill gives much more
 latitude to the states and restricts the ability of the secretary of education to punish or reward them based on their progress... The final bill is still being drafted, but a House-Senate conference committee approved its framework in an overwhelming vote-of the 40-member panel, only Senator Rand Paul voted against it. Despite concerns about the restrictions the new law would place on the secretary of education, the White House "is pleased with the framework," said Roberto Rodr&iacute;guez, an education adviser on Obama's Domestic Policy Council." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd401095a4784d8b61911192261a18296fc9132324137164dc79

LOBBYISTS EYE REGULATIONS IN WAKE OF REFUGEE CRISIS. The Intercept's Lee Fang writes, "In an audio recording of a strategy session ... lobbyists representing a number of high-polluting industries agreed that the battle between Congress and President Obama on refugee policy will give them the cover they need to attach a legislative rider [blocking the new Waters of the United States rule] to the omnibus budget bill that rolls back newly expanded clean water regulation." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd40f5b3239c1cd58bb155b3e474fa6ee760587fdebede766a5a

LUNTZ TO DINE WITH HOUSE DEMOCRATS. Your Huddle author reports, "The architect behind the GOP's Contract with America will join House Democrats for dinner when lawmakers return from Thanksgiving break, as the House minority looks to overhaul its messaging strategy. California Rep. Xavier Becerra, chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, invited noted Republican strategist Frank Luntz as the featured guest at the members-only dinner Monday." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd40b7782bfaa306642eed5abc3b89f895d9390c37d931cc3943

MCCARTHY SLAMS OBAMA IN NEW VIDEO. Check out the spot, shared first with Huddle, which features Democrats questioning the administration's strategy on ISIS. http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd4005f3b63d9a271f15f5b81d831ab00f802798e8556abf2890

WATCHDOG GROUP ASK FOR ETHICS INVESTIGATION INTO WILLIAMS. John Dunbar for the Center for Public Integrity writes, "A watchdog group has called for the investigation of the actions of an auto-dealing congressman who proposed an amendment that would exempt his industry from a safety requirement. The amendment, which passed the House of Representatives, was offered just before midnight on Nov. 11. It allows automobile dealers to rent or loan out vehicles even if they are subject to safety recalls. Rental car companies, meanwhile, don't get the same treatment under the proposed law. It was sponsored by U.S. Rep. Roger Williams, R-Austin, a self-described "second-generation auto dealer." The
 Campaign Legal Center in a letter sent Monday urged the House Ethics Committee and the Office of Congressional Ethics to review Williams' actions and also recommended changes to clarify House rules concerning recusal and conflicts of interest by members." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd40c11388a570cb926de63619b06369b7500d48b39039c5a5e6

OBAMA ASKS FOR NO DELAY IN IMMIGRATION HEARING. Josh Gerstein has the story, "The Obama administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday not to allow a month-long delay that could jeopardize the justices' issuing a ruling this term on whether to lift an injunction blocking a key part of President Barack Obama's immigration legacy: his plan to offer quasi-legal status and work permits to millions more illegal immigrants. In a letter to the high court's clerk, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli Jr. urged the court to reject a request Monday from Texas and 25 other states for a 30-day filing extension. Such extensions are routinely granted by the court, but doing so in this case would push
 arguments in the case from this year to next under normal procedures - leaving a major part of Obama's immigration policy in limbo until around the time he is set to leave office." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=4805116ed173cd4028f95891031ea5d1356df51f9f1a42b184a34f4a9bbf98d9

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