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RUBIO'S BIG DAY -Announcement this afternoon: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is looking way past Hillary Clinton's social media rollout and is expected to launch his presidential campaign today at Miami's iconic Freedom Tower, a fitting place for the son of two immigrants and a one-time champion of comprehensive immigration reform. POLITICO'S Alex Isenstadt has more: "Monday's speech will highlight Rubio's hawkish approach to foreign policy - especially his support for Israel - which he's made a centerpiece of his agenda in recent years. But the focus will be the Florida senator's life story and heritage. There's no better place to serve as a backdrop for that message than Freedom Tower, a
Mediterranean-style building on Biscayne Avenue, that served in the 1960s and 1970s as a processing center for Cubans seeking political asylum from Fidel Castro's dictatorship."
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Freedom! I dug up a photo of that tower everyone is talking about, and yeah, it's pretty cool looking.
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Motivation: "'For Marco, being told he can't do something is a challenge,'" says Tallahassee lobbyist Bill Helmich, who recalls staffing Rubio's campaign in the barebones days when the 'Three Percent Club' were viewed as crazy cultists by the Florida Republican establishment. ... And as Helmich says, "there are definitely parallels between Marco's situation today and in 2010." He is again polling in low single digits in the Republican field, again defying party mandarins who say he's got a bright future but it's not yet his time. The main difference is that many of those pay-your-dues establishment voices now believe it's his former mentor Jeb Bush's time." Mike Grunwald and Marc Caputo:
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Flashback: Per Wikipedia, Rubio was polling at 4 percent in January of 2009 and by June had hit 23 percent. He overtook Charlie Crist in the primary polls in early 2010, then overtook him for good in the general election in August.

THE SENATE'S PACKED AGENDA: Recess didn't bring much clarity to the Senate's logjam, though leaders are looking at sending the House's Medicare payments bill to the president as soon as they can despite the inclusion of abortion language that Democrats hate. Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch must wait until the Senate can strike a deal on similar abortion language in a human trafficking bill. Now, "Lynch's nomination has been pending for more than five months since President Barack Obama picked her to succeed Eric Holder as head of the Justice Department, the longest wait for an attorney general nominee since 1985, when Ed Meese was confirmed as President Ronald Reagan's pick for the
nation's top lawyer more than a year after he was nominated." Seung Min Kim and I preview the session:
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Don't forget the budget: Intrepid reporter Rachael Bade reports that the House and Senate probably won't get a compromise budget done by April 15.
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WHAT ABOUT AN IRAN COMPROMISE? People are talking on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, but it likely won't be evident that there's a compromise on a way forward until Tuesday, when Chairman Bob Corker plans to bring his congressional review bill to a vote. Corker stayed in touch with new ranking member Ben Cardin over the long recess about assuaging some Democratic concerns -- critical for a veto-proof majority -- but there's no breakthrough yet. And Corker has to balance the demands of the Democrats, who want to take out some certification language and allow the president to more quickly lift legislative sanctions, with hawks like Rubio, who want the bill to require that Iran
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It's like 2008 all over again: Roll Call's Niels Lesniewski recounts the weekend battle between President Obama and Sen. John McCain over the role of Secretary of State John Kerry, an unusually personal launch of attacks between the old campaign rivals fueled by the jet fuel that is the Iran negotiations.
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Congress springs back to action today. Welcome to the Huddle, your play-by-play guide to everything Capitol Hill, where the blossoms at Lincoln Park may just be the best in the city. Please send tips to
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TODAY IN CONGRESS - Senate is in at 2 p.m. and will vote at 5:30 p.m. on a judicial nomination. The House is in at noon and will vote at 6:30 p.m. on some suspensions.

AROUND THE HILL - In a throwback move, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy will hold a pen and pad press briefing in the Capitol today at 11 a.m. in H 107.

ICYMI: Hillary Clinton is running for president (no, you didn't miss it). And after she made it official on Sunday, the statements tumbled in from across the Democratic ranks in Congress endorsing her as the party's nominee. But if you really want to make news folks, take a cue from New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who refused to endorse Clinton on Sunday and generated lots of headlines and smart takes. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, who served alongside Clinton in the Senate, would give the press no such grist: "She has the experience and mindset to get results. Hillary has the rare ability to understand the problems that confront hardworking Americans, and the rare experience to get things
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SUICIDE AT CAPITOL AS DINE EYES EXIT: It was a busy weekend for Capitol Police Chief Kim Dine, who was on the scene to brief reporters on Saturday afternoon after a man committed suicide on the Capitol's West Front. But Dine wants out of the job and has submitted a letter of resignation, according to a very nice scoop from Bridget Bowman and Emma Dumain. "It is not currently known whether the letter has or will be accepted by the three-member board, made up of the House and Senate sergeants-at-arms and the Architect of the Capitol. Multiple attempts to secure a comment from Dine were unsuccessful."
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Better Qs: At the Saturday press conference, no reporters asked Dine about his job status, concentrating instead on the self-inflicted gunshot death that occurred on the Capitol's West Front.

SCHUMER'S CHECKLIST: Schumer has emerged from his caucus over the past decade as the clear successor to Leader Harry Reid, powering the Democrats to big majorities in the 2000s, leading their messaging operation and cutting deals with Republicans. Now comes the hard part: Organizing the caucus, picking a new leadership team and trying not to hurt too many feelings. The decisions start with whether Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin continues as whip and include whether to reshape the Democratic Policy and Communications Committee and how to run the vote-counting operation -- and no one expects these decision to be made too quickly. As former Sen. Byron Dorgan told Manu and me: "He will do whatever
he does over a period of time, not abruptly ... they will both be very careful about all these things. Harry Reid is going to be the leader until the end of next year. Harry is not some sort of wilting flower."
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RYAN LAWSUIT DROPPED: NBC Washington reports that two DC-area men have dropped a $100,000 lawsuit against Rep. Paul Ryan and Chief of Staff Kevin Seifert.
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LAST DOMINO: With Rubio, Cruz and Paul all in the 2016 game now, we are waiting to hear from just one more GOP senator on his White House aspirations: Lindsey Graham. Per the Washington Post's Karen Heller, Graham will wait until late May to make a final decision. And then he has to decide which of his two flip-phones to use to call John McCain to deliver the news.
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LINE OF THE DAY: Goes to Jeremy Herb, who concludes of the sequester: "The prospect of sequestration - across-the-board cuts reaching almost every nook and cranny of the Pentagon - is nearly as remote as the possibility of the Loch Ness monster showing up on the Senate floor." That would be Sen. Champ Loch Ness (I-Vt.), to you.
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FRIDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Colleen Shogan was the first to answer that former Rep. Michele Bachmann mistakenly stated that the Battle of Lexington and Concord was fought in New Hampshire.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - I'll take today's question: When did Congress fail to agree to reallocate House seats based on population shifts among states? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day's Huddle. Email me at
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