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10/05/2017 08:47 AM EDT


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

With an assist from Sarah Ferris

BUMP STOCKS BAN GAINS STEAM - Several Republicans across the Capitol have said they're open to a bill that would ban bump stocks - an accessory the Las Vegas shooter used on his guns that basically turns them into automatic weapons. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said it'd be worthwhile to have a hearing on bump stocks, which many lawmakers have admitted they hadn't heard of until Sunday's massacre. "It seems like it's an obvious area we ought to explore and see if it's something Congress needs to act on," Cornyn said, reports the New York Times.

Other Republicans including Sens. John Thune (S.D.), Ron Johnson (Wis.), James Lankford (Okla.) and Rep. Bill Flores (Texas) have said they want to learn more about the accessory or ban bump stocks outright. "Automatic weapons are illegal. If that facilitates that, to me it would be subject to the same ban. If that actually gets on the Senate floor, I'd vote for it," Johnson said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), whose daughter made a last-minute decision not to attend the Las Vegas concert, introduced a bill banning bump stocks on Wednesday. So far no Republicans have signed on. Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) introduced similar legislation in the House. Republican Rep. Carlos Curbelo (Fla.) says he plans to introduce his own bill banning the accessory in the coming days, the Hill reports.

Still, Republicans have long been resistant to any kind of gun control legislation and previous mass shootings have not dislodged them from their hard-line opposition. "I'm a Second Amendment man," said Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby. "I'm not for any gun control, OK? None." Bres, Seung Min and Burgess on where things stand right now: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2eb8dc3cda3c93dc9bd8cb2c7d96bd2af1f32e8b13e58dc77e0b7d8a1d666e9b2ad316c5e933e36feeabf1b16236788911

MURPHY TO RETIRE AFTER SCANDAL - Pennsylvania Rep. Tim Murphy announced Wednesday that he will retire at the end of his term after allegations that the married, pro-life Republican asked his mistress to terminate a pregnancy. Murphy met privately with Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) before his announcement, as well as with Pennsylvania GOP Reps. Bill Shuster and Charlie Dent. Murphy said he plans to take "personal time" with his family in the coming weeks. Rachael, Elena Schneider and Bres with more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e355b04c8d98cece35ef67b4907b61a9dbdc6104385e4c20a5f6b696029867b70f4d29d84fa7f951d82c7dcb5cf4b7e67

SHOW ME THE MONEY - Top GOP donors, angry at Republicans' inability to get things done on Capitol Hill, are giving leaders like Mitch McConnell an earful at party dinners and closing up their wallets in protest, Alex Isenstadt and Gabriel Debenedetti report this morning. "Party officials are so alarmed that North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis, who oversees fundraising for the NRSC, told his colleagues at a recent conference meeting that donations had fallen off a cliff after the Obamacare flop. The committee's haul plummeted to just $2 million in July and August, less than half of what it raised in June." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2ed322fd25cc3c5fc9938adfaf3bce0271caf6bc15e17027f50abef239eb660fc7f6e145fb287e87a597c28698c7eed3ce

PUSHING FOR PAY-FORS - Rep. Mark Walker, chairman of the influential Republican Study Committee, is demanding that Congress find a way to pay for its disaster relief aid this year -- starting with the $30 billion requested in part for Puerto Rico by the White House on Wednesday. "We're going to come out strong for those to be offset," Walker told POLITICO on Wednesday evening. "Just because Republicans are in charge doesn't mean deficits and debts no longer matter," Walker suggested that Congress could pay for the aid by reshuffling money from Amtrak subsidies, or Obamacare's advertising budget. or the government's contentious car-maker loan program.
More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2edc794738a806332f47708140cfd2f3cb74dcd89d28d71b1e33c87522f6cf7c56a20f687904fff9379e7f25f3e9507f33

COMING ATTRACTIONS: THE HOUSE BUDGET - The House is expected to pass its fiscal 2018 budget resolution later this morning, a key step toward GOP efforts to pass a tax overhaul later this year that isn't subject to a Democratic filibuster. The House budget "assumes that the upcoming tax bill won't add to the deficit; the Senate version, however, would permit the measure to add $1.5 trillion to the $20 trillion-plus national debt over the coming 10 years. The final version is likely to stick closely to the Senate measure," the AP's Andrew Taylor reports. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e00fbb4a98611440e98e9adf3210c6d4d3c426acd9ef69f1e42090f9d7308025dad634e9a46a86b0d5a7a5e73e86c087d

THANKS FOR JOINING US THIS THURSDAY, OCT. 5. and tuning in to POLITICO's Huddle, the play-by-play guide to all things Capitol Hill.

PROGRAMMING NOTE: Huddle will be taking the day off Monday, Oct. 9, for Columbus Day, but we'll be back in your inboxes Tuesday morning.

WEDNESDAY'S MOST CLICKED: The Senate floor schedule for Wednesday was the big winner.

REIGNITING THE FILIBUSTER FIGHT? Later today, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will reintroduce his bill to ban abortions nationwide after 20 weeks of pregnancy, a move that could reignite the fight over the chamber's filibuster rules with the president and lower chamber. The bill, which passed the House Tuesday, is sure to fail in the Senate given the chamber's 60-vote threshold for most legislation. That could again prompt Trump to needle Senate Republicans to nix the filibuster, something Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is strongly against. Graham has tried to prevail on Trump that killing the filibuster is a poor long-term strategy for conservatives, particularly on abortion, but
hasn't succeeded, Burgess reports. More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e6334382440c92140582df6dcc68d790d3cf9f2a824eeee7640b9a3b7b2f772ed29bf2ffe96b21d1109822f9bfd8bae7a

INTEL LEADERS OFFER UPDATE ON RUSSIA PROBE - Senate Intel leaders hope to wrap up their investigation into Russia before the midterm election, chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and ranking member Mark Warner (D-Va.) told reporters Wednesday. The Intel leaders said they've "hit a wall" in their investigation of a dossier of unverified information about Trump, Kyle and Elana report. But Burr made clear "that questions about whether anyone in Trump's campaign cooperated with Russians to influence the 2016 election are still at the heart of the committee's work." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e23bfa348d45746cf337002a5f6f388fc9bbe2b11fa4fe6b1baf2e63798be0bf1e7ebbc8463b7ee1765b0f0a2dcaa2841

MANY DREAMERS FACE RENEWAL DEADLINE - Today is the deadline for more than 150,000 Dreamers to renew their DACA applications before the program is set to sunset in March. Democrats have called on the White House to extend the deadline - which applies to young, undocumented immigrants whose protections expire in the next six months - to no avail. Around 48,000 eligible Dreamers have yet to take action ahead of today's deadline, ABC News reports.

BANNON BACKS GRIMM - Former White House strategist Steve Bannon threw his support behind Michael Grimm on Wednesday, the controversial former Staten Island congressman who's challenging incumbent Rep. Dan Donovan. The two met at "the Breitbart Embassy" in Washington on Wednesday, Bannon's D.C. headquarters. "Andy Surabian, a political strategist who works closely with Mr. Bannon and who was at Wednesday's meeting, said, 'Steve likes the fact that Grimm is a straight-talking, fire-breathing, conservative populist,'" Shane Goldmacher reports for the New York Times.

Tweet du jour: (@RealMGrimm): Game on! #MAGA. With a picture of Grimm and Bannon: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e77f125e221e40d81f765916e9aa6d2a8d007c329cab32cd69a42372004b9eef780c93c4de7c62cda73804eb0c2a1d992

PROSECUTORS WON'T CALL REID IN MENENDEZ TRIAL - Harry Reid won't be asked by prosecutors to testify in the federal corruption case against Sen. Bob Menendez, despite being part of a central meeting in the case against the New Jersey Democrat. "The trial against Menendez ended its fifth week Wednesday as a former Reid aide testified about a 2012 meeting between Menendez, Reid and other federal officials that is a key part of the bribery case against the New Jersey senator," CNN reports. "Prosecutors have framed the 2012 meeting as an effort by Menendez to advocate on behalf of [Salomon] Melgen." The defense could still ask Reid to testify. Sarah Jorgensen and Laura Jarrett with more:
http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e94502b77ed1d7fbb0fb742050e6ce4dd5e673efaac026eb1a574a600570e6d3cf2341612e524e32052c301fcf3bddac3

SENATORS ROLL OUT CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL - Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) introduced "a sweeping bill to overhaul the nation's criminal justice system and sentencing laws, reviving a bipartisan effort that had been left for dead last year," Seung Min reports. "Grassley did not lay out a timetable for marking up the bill, a version of which sailed through his committee 15-5 during the last Congress but never made it to the floor due to objections from conservative law-and-order Republicans in the conference." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2ed9b36e925606387759eed53d2cbc6f0048a23c1d59f82c1e3dafece687e176fdda8c63f5239f86939e06346641ab56e5

CORKER UNPLUGGED - Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) is retiring so he can pretty much say whatever he wants, including things like this: "I think Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis and Chief of Staff Kelly are those people that help separate our country from chaos," he told reporters Wednesday. Corker was responding to an NBC News report that Tillerson considered resigning from his secretary of State post over the summer and called the president a "moron." Tillerson denied he ever had plans to resign. Cristiano Lima with more: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2eb6163f66996fdc6967b6fefe62aff8d5c6b2279929c694059bec6b99c8e2c162cdabe437f9e3ad234144efe3eb34747e

CALL ME MAYBE - Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) says White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is blocking the pro-Russia lawmaker from talking to the president about pardoning WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Rohrabacher told Business Insider "that Kelly and 'a coalition of people in the White House' are preventing him from having a conversation with Trump that would entail clearing Assange and the Russian government from allegations they meddled in the 2016 presidential election." More: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e123e6b45a910509dadfd917604319a877f5b6156f2c8470238495f652ca8f141b098ee6d796d3646629eee1d879a6435

MOVING ON UP - Joel Kelsey has been promoted to chief of staff for Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Kelsey has worked as Blumenthal's legislative director since 2015. Laurie Rubiner, Blumenthal's previous chief, recently left for a new job as president and CEO the Alliance for Children's Rights.

TODAY IN CONGRESS - The Senate meets at 9:30 a.m. with roll call votes at 10 a.m. and 1:45 p.m. Today's agenda: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=d8450f3ba96a8a2e08f1bbec7d24e26b84e50000964b4adef59b558197222791fbabe80f0f54e19d2d2ceda6b536bad608f0f7a9fd0e00bd The House meets at 9 a.m. with first votes around 10 a.m. and last votes around 11:30 a.m.

AROUND THE HILL - Sens. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.) Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) hold a press conference on the Land and Water Conservation Fund at 9:30 a.m. in the House triangle. Reps. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) and Matt Cartwright (D-Pa.) hold a press conference on the coal economy at 9:30 a.m. in the House triangle.

House Natural Resources Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.), Reps. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) hold a press conference on managing federal forests and wildfires at 10 a.m. in HVC Studio B.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) participate in a press conference with immigration advocates calling for passage of the Dream Act at 10 a.m. in the House triangle.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) participate in a press conference on the U.S. policies toward China at 10:30 a.m. in SVC-215. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) holds her weekly press conference at 10:45 a.m. in HVC Studio A.

Gutierrez holds a press conference on Puerto Rico at 11 a.m. in the House triangle. House Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Reps. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) hold a press conference on tax relief for hurricane victims at 11 a.m. in the House triangle.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) holds a press conference on his anti-abortion legislation at 11 a.m. in 138 Dirksen. House Judiciary Committee Democrats and members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus hold a forum on antitrust enforcement at 11:30 a.m. in 2226 Rayburn.

House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), ranking member John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich.), and Reps. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) hold a press conference on reauthorizing FISA at 12 p.m. in HVC Studio A.

Reps. Brian Mast (R-Fla.), Don Bacon (R-Neb.) and Salud Carbajal (D-Calif.) hold a press conference on legislation to support Gold Star families at 1:30 p.m. in the House triangle. Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) hold a press conference on the University of Mississippi Medical Center at 1:30 p.m. in 192 Dirksen.

WEDNESDAY'S TRIVIA WINNER - Joe Vitale was first to guess that Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kansas) has severed as chairman of both the House and Senate agriculture committees. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) wasn't too far behind, also guessing correctly.

TODAY'S TRIVIA - Joe with today's question: This longtime politician was defeated in three elections by two different men, both of whom shared his first name. Who is the man and who were the two men who defeated him? Send your best guess my way: hcaygle@politico.com. The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next edition of Huddle.

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