EMAIL DETAILS

09/08/2017 08:03 AM EDT


By Heather Caygle (hcaygle@politico.com or @heatherscope)

HOUSE LOOKS TO CLEAR HARVEY AID PACKAGE - The House is expected to clear a bill later today that would provide the first down payment on Hurricane Harvey aid and fund the government and lift the debt ceiling until Dec. 8. GOP leaders want to wrap up votes shortly after noon today to give members from the southeast enough time to get home before Hurricane Irma hits, according to a notice sent to lawmakers last night. The bill - a deal President Donald Trump struck with Democratic leaders - would provide about $15 billion in critical aid just as FEMA says it's running out of money and bracing for Irma's impact in the south.

Opposition party: The Republican Study Committee panned the bill Thursday, with RSC Chairman Mark Walker (R-N.C.) saying at least 100 GOP lawmakers in the group are expected to vote against the package since the debt limit increase doesn't include offsetting spending cuts. For Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the vote count raises the uncomfortable prospect that he'll push forward with legislation that a majority of the 240 House Republicans oppose, a move that could deepen fractures among GOP lawmakers. Kyle and your Huddle host with more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3ba3cce5d4a5b64f0d0fbf5d66983573ab33aa21d82c7b41f07f6c6e3eb0990eee9e0ff032257558db30927b15c03ce68

Now watch me whip: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and OMB Director Mick Mulvaney will be on the Hill this morning to urge wary Republicans to vote for the president's debt limit deal. "GOP leaders will depend on Democrats to carry the vote over the finish-line, but they're hoping to pad their Republican numbers as a show of support for leadership," Rachael reports. The Senate passed the measure Thursday afternoon 80-17. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3e6006656aa31fb87c640a101103fefd80913783548aa75fb835f55a2e07f8548c1dae9e3ae189a260f4c9bf894e6cfd7


** A message from the National Network of Abortion Funds: People who had abortions have a message for leaders in Washington: When you embrace anti-abortion politicians, we ALL pay the price. This week we'll be bringing you the voices of our We Testify abortion storytellers. Listen to us. Learn more at listen.abortionfunds.org **


View from the West Wing: Trump, meanwhile, is overjoyed about the deal, even calling Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday to rave about the positive press coverage, Josh Dawsey reports.

TUESDAY GROUP'S DENT TO RETIRE - Rep. Charlie Dent, the moderate Pennsylvania Republican who has been an outspoken Trump critic, will not run for reelection in 2018. Dent, co-chair of the Tuesday Group, made the announcement Thursday night. Dent's announced departure comes one day after state Rep. Justin Simmons said he would challenge him in a primary, Kyle and Alex Isenstadt report. "I guess the polling must have been really bad. Can't say we were expecting this," Simmons said of Dent's retirement.

Swing, swing: Trump won Dent's district in 2016 but Democrats consider it a swing district and are sure to target the open seat in next year's midterms. Dent's retirement comes one day after another swing-district Republican, Washington Rep. Dave Reichert, announced his retirement. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d32150a75a06fc19fbe6c7e3936022dfd34da545334d46ab94fdee54de23bfe811758e61a8462cf3aefe73a6d6445ed721

Friends across the aisle: Democratic Rep. Linda Sanchez of California issued a gushing statement after Dent's retirement, praising him for his fair-minded approach when the two led the House Ethics Committee together. "Charlie Dent is a model for what an elected representative should be," Sanchez said. "He is a man that has earned the great respect of his colleagues on both sides of the aisle by being principled, fair, and firm in his beliefs." (Huddle note: Reporters will also miss the oft-quotable Dent, who has always treated the Hill press corps with kindness and was generous with his time.)

FINALLY FRIDAY Y'ALL. Welcome to Sept. 8 and thanks for tuning in to POLITICO's Huddle, the play-by-play guide to all things Capitol Hill.

THURSDAY'S MOST CLICKED: Republicans' anger after Trump's deal with Democrats, reported by Burgess, Rachael and Josh Dawsey, was the big winner.

DON'T GET YOUR HOPES UP - GOP Sens. Bill Cassidy (La.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.) plan to introduce a revised version of their Obamacare repeal Monday, hoping to get a vote this month, Bloomberg's Laura Litvan and Steve Dennis report. But, as Burgess reports, fellow GOP senators are already throwing cold water on the idea of another Obamacare repeal vote before their opportunity to roll back the law with a simple majority expires at the end of this month. "We've seen that we don't have 51 votes to do it, so we're going to have to do it bipartisan," Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) told Burgess. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3fa2cfd159213e039d0281e3e67393cfd1cc58e125b83250a8e410946ce6265d6917f333cd9da504c90008829dc3d8c19

DEMS TRY TO FORCE DACA VOTE - House Democrats led by Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and CHC Chair Michelle Lujan Grisham (D-N.M.) filed a petition late Thursday to force a House vote on the Dream Act, a bill that provides a pathway to citizenship for Dreamers. The legislative maneuver, known as a discharge petition, is rarely successful because it requires 218 members to sign on before the House is forced to vote on a bill. That means Democrats would need 24 Republicans to back the petition - not entirely impossible with the bipartisan support for Dreamers but still a very high hurdle given many GOP lawmakers are hesitant to buck their leadership.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - Stephan with today's question: Three presidents obtained paid federal public office after the end of their presidencies. Who are they? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next edition of Huddle. Send your best guess my way: hcaygle@politico.com

SWALWELL 2020? Could California Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell be eyeing a run for the White House? At least one enthusiastic Democratic donor hopes so. In a fundraising email obtained by Huddle, San Diego donor Bob Nelson teases a potential Swalwell White House bid: "Here is your chance to ask Eric yourself and find out if he has what you are looking for as our next national champion," Nelson writes in the email, inviting donors to a "Taco Tuesday" fundraiser with the lawmaker in mid-August. Swalwell told Huddle he has no plans to run for president, adding he wasn't aware of the email until we showed it to him. But Nelson still has hope: "Were it not for them being two white guys my dream
ticket might be Biden-Swalwell 2020. An ideal marriage of age and wisdom to youth and enthusiasm," Nelson told Huddle in an email.

MURPHY MAKES SINGLE PAYER PITCH - As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and other potential presidential challengers - most recently Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) - flock to "Medicare for all," Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) is "taking a conspicuously more pragmatic approach designed to get Democrats closer to that lofty but potentially unobtainable goal," Elana reports. "In the process, it could give vulnerable Democrats loath to attach themselves to Sanders a more politically palatable alternative that still satisfies the party's base." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3265be725028cada090800fa0e18019763475b875256e1a68395bcb28b9de87b32673ecae55919cf91b229c81731d0b78

IS IT TOO LATE NOW TO SAY SORRY? "Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) was forced to apologize on Thursday after he lashed out at Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in unusually personal terms during House floor debate late in the evening," the Hill's Cristina Marcos reports. "After Jayapal, a liberal freshman representing Seattle, spoke in opposition to his amendment, Young snapped that she 'doesn't know a damn thing what she's talking about' ...Young, 84, proceeded to address his 51-year-old colleague as a 'young lady'" before later apologizing. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3899a29443fcc11ba51b0617c4793969bc06e5b0c3e63730e263d7ab22037bfafb61db41944ab1dbab1589303eab29f68

THE ART OF THE DODGE - Their colleague Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) may be on trial for federal corruption, but red-state Democrats up for reelection in 2018 just don't want to go there, Kevin Robillard notes for Morning Score. Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, to HuffPost: "I'm a former prosecutor, so I was trained appropriately to never discuss a trial until it is completed." ... West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, to CNN : "We are a country of laws. And I think people should just let this process go through before they come to judgment in any way shape or form." ... Montana Sen. Jon Tester told CNN he's been focused on wildfires in his home state: "I haven't really been paying attention to the
trial."

CABINET WATCH: McCAUL ON DHS SHORT LIST - Texas GOP Rep. Michael McCaul has emerged as a leading candidate to replace John Kelly as Homeland Security secretary. The White House hasn't rushed to fill the open position since Kelly left the post to become Trump's chief of staff in July but is now looking for a replacement. McCaul, who is chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, was passed over for the job during the transition. Eliana Johnson and Anna Palmer: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3d4b7209beeb46660ece77dbd630ab654549f2720485bbd836ef485b301c5bb3f538163b707c25fbad19b99c9439897ec

DEPARTURE LOUNGE - Joe Kasper, long-time aide and current chief of staff for Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), is leaving the Hill, he announced in an email Thursday. Kasper, who also worked for Hunter's dad when he was a lawmaker, will start a new gig at the Pentagon on Oct. 2. Hunter has been at the center of an ongoing criminal investigation into potential misuse of campaign dollars and his campaign treasurer's office was raided by the FBI earlier this year. Kasper told the San Diego Union-Tribune's Carl Prine that the probe had "nothing to do" with his decision to leave the Hill after 15 years.

TODAY IN CONGRESS - The House meets at 9 a.m. to consider the Hurricane Harvey aid/CR/debt limit package with first votes at 10 a.m. and last votes at 12 p.m. Today's agenda: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d366c61bc4f5e2b89726869e63323dc865e40900b108436d346b1d9487b2221c27aa83cc4c8e4a639bf54fb422b04ff877 The Senate is out until Monday.

AROUND THE HILL - The Problem Solvers Caucus co-chairs Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) and Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper hold a press conference on bipartisan health care solutions at 9:15 a.m. in the House triangle.

Reps. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) will participate in a 12:30 pm conference call about a lawsuit to challenge the end of DACA. For dial-in info: press@americasvoice.org.

Gutierrez and Reps. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) and Raul Grijalva (D-Ariz.) join immigration advocates for a press conference on the Dream Act at 1 p.m. in the House triangle.

THE GLOBAL POLICY LAB - POLITICO Europe is launching Global Policy Lab, a first-of-its kind experiment in collaborative journalism that is expected to produce new policy solutions and inform the public debate on key issues. POLITICO readers are among the most engaged and educated in the world, and the Global Policy Lab will tap into their experience and knowledge to develop solutions to pressing challenges.

POLITICO is partnering with GE on the first installment, titled Engineering Growth, to look at the rise of digital manufacturing in Germany, Europe's largest economy, and explore ways to improve the economies of France and the United Kingdom. GET INVOLVED: Sign up to the weekly newsletter HERE.

THURSDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Stephan Kline was first to guess that Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.) is the current member of Congress who lost a nasty primary fight to Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) in 1992. "Racial, sexual and religious epithets and innuendo marked the heated competition in the district, which runs from just north of Miami up past Lake Okeechobee," the New York Times reported back then.

GET HUDDLE emailed to your phone each morning.


** A message from the National Network of Abortion Funds: Yamani Hernandez, executive director of NNAF, had an abortion, and she has a message for leaders in Washington: "I think anybody who has ever taken a call from somebody who needed help [paying for an abortion] knows it's really hard not to remember those people. That compels all of us to work harder. To not leave anybody behind. And realizing, 'If not us, then who?' We are more important than ever before." Since 2010 there have been more than 338 new restrictions on abortion passed throughout the country, pushing this vital health service out of reach. YET, the majority of Americans want a person's abortion experience to be: legal
and affordable, free from shame and pressure, and based on medically accurate information. Listen to us. Those who have had and are having abortions and know what's at stake. Learn more at listen.abortionfunds.org **

To view online:
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3572ee34f38acdd73722fe49e82d47db47379f23ae4e8c1c00dcdb90c7abb634e12f6ad0f16454bc217bef1cc8aa91cdd
To change your alert settings, please go to http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=e8ec401334d635d3845ebc35f84b9ff31084420d8a6ef2a8c656c9b5ff4e9acffa59e48cc8fcf00db882e285993c8d70c2fe036f5d137fcf or http://click.politicoemail.com/profile_center.aspx?qs=c1c81b2ef644fde1dd3c1f6178ef6a8ea3ee660992025bd49b48b970a994d837ef0e5667b0e074f82f34a217ce3552fece0b42821992f010
This email was sent to Hbiden@rosemontseneca.com by: POLITICO, LLC 1000 Wilson Blvd. Arlington, VA, 22209, USA


To unsubscribe,http://www.politico.com/_unsubscribe?e=0000015e-615f-dad5-a77f-7dff4b030000&u=0000014e-f0fe-dd93-ad7f-f8fffbc40000&s=c5fb754310870e5b0f6fa9be031a4c6e7c8ab5fa2ca91ff28336ee700acb318b8a413d27e5a97f414927f9003eb1c3f3d81e2146a5c4b5026b92138d795419ea