GOP FUEDS OVER OBAMACARE TACTIC ? Manu Raju and Jake Sherman report for the hometown paper: ?A brewing Republican versus Republican fight over whether to use a government funding measure to choke off Obamacare is splitting the party ahead of this fall?s budget battles.
?A growing number of Republicans are rejecting calls from leading conservatives, including Sens. Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, to defund the president?s health care law in the resolution to keep the government running past Sept. 30. The rift exposes an emerging divide over how the GOP can best achieve its No. 1 goal ? to repeal Obamacare ? while highlighting the spreading fears that Republicans would lose a public relations war if the dispute leads to a government shutdown in the fall.
?The debate is happening behind closed doors and over Senate lunches, as well as during a frank meeting Wednesday with House leaders in Speaker John Boehner?s suite where fresh concerns were aired about the party?s strategy. On Thursday, the dispute began to spill into public view, most notably when three Senate Republicans ? including Minority Whip John Cornyn ? withdrew their signatures from a conservative letter demanding defunding Obamacare as a condition for supporting the government funding measure.? http://politi.co/15kcFA4
GROUNDSWELL ? Mother Jones? David Corn details a behind-the-scenes conservative messaging push: ?Believing they are losing the messaging war with progressives, a group of prominent conservatives in Washington?including the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and journalists from Breitbart News and the Washington Examiner?has been meeting privately since early this year to concoct talking points, coordinate messaging, and hatch plans for "a 30 front war seeking to fundamentally transform the nation," according to documents obtained by Mother Jones.
Dubbed Groundswell, this coalition convenes weekly in the offices of Judicial Watch, the conservative legal watchdog group. During these hush-hush sessions and through a Google group, the members of Groundswell?including aides to congressional Republicans?cook up battle plans for their ongoing fights against the Obama administration, congressional Democrats, progressive outfits, and the Republican establishment and "clueless" GOP congressional leaders. They devise strategies for killing immigration reform, hyping the Benghazi controversy, and countering the impression that the GOP exploits racism. And the Groundswell gang is mounting a behind-the-scenes organized effort to eradicate the outsize influence of GOP ?ber-strategist/pundit Karl Rove within Republican and conservative ranks.? http://bit.ly/13IvRYq
WENDY DAVIS COMES TO DC ? POLITICO?s Elizabeth Titus reports, ?One month after Wendy Davis?s abortion bill filibuster, congressional Democrats feted the Texas state senator as she swung through Washington to raise cash.
?They said Davis did not indicate what she is planning to do in 2014, when she could defend her seat in the state legislature or launch an underdog bid for statewide office ? perhaps even for governor.? http://politi.co/146clbe
HOLDER PUSHES TEXAS ON VOTING ? Signs that Congress could quickly sign off on another formula to restore the Voting Rights Act after it was struck down last month are pretty dim. Attorney General Eric Holder is continuing to push for oversight of voting laws in Texas. The New York Times? Charlie Savage and Adam Liptak report: ?Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announced on Thursday that the Justice Department would ask a court to require Texas to get permission from the federal government before making voting changes in that state. The move opens a new chapter in the political struggle over election rules after the Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Voting Rights Act last month.
?In a speech before the National Urban League in Philadelphia, Mr. Holder also indicated that the filing, expected later on Thursday, was most likely just an opening salvo in a new Obama administration strategy to try to reimpose ?preclearance? requirements in parts of the country that have a history of discriminating against minority voters.? http://nyti.ms/19m2Eqt??????????
-- The Associated Press has a handy breakdown of the history of the voting rights lawsuits in Texas: http://bit.ly/15kbFvY
Rand Paul is maintaining hold on FBI nominee: http://politi.co/19m4asz
ROGERS REPORT ? POLITICO?s David Rogers has the latest on the farm bill: ?The chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, Rep. Marcia Fudge, signaled Thursday that she is prepared to make new concessions on food stamps to advance Farm Bill talks with the Senate.
?But having met face to face with Majority Leader Eric Cantor this week, Fudge, a Democrat from Ohio, said she came away more skeptical that the Virginia Republican is willing to move from his own positions to get a deal.? http://politi.co/13i271k
STEVE KING: DAY 3 ? Rep. Steve King isn?t backing away from his remarks about immigrant children being used as drug mules that have prompted outrage ? and only a few defenders ? on both sides of the aisle. Speaker Boehner bashed the remarks, King defended them again and undocumented students brought cantaloupes to his office: http://politi.co/13IuXv6
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GOOD FRIDAY MORNING, July 26, 2013, and welcome to The Huddle, your play-by-play preview of the day?s congressional news. I?ve hijacked Huddle for the week while Scott is away. Send tips, suggestions, comments, complaints and corrections to ggibson@politico.com. Or follow me on Twitter @GingerGibson to register compliments/complaints there.
TODAY IN CONGRESS ?The House has gone home for the week. The Senate headed back to their states as well. All is quiet on Capitol Hill.
AROUND THE HILL ? At noon, The Law & Economics Center at George Mason University School of Law hosts a panel on ?Patent Trolls: Greasing the Wheels or Grinding the Gears?? in Rayburn 2237 (and they?re serving Hill Country BBQ).
YESTERDAY ON THE FLOOR ? The House passed the Coal Residuals Reuse and Management Act of 2013 265-155. The Senate confirmed Derek West to be Associate Attorney General in a 98-1 vote. The Senate also worked through a series of THUD amendments.
#FOLLOW FRIDAY ? House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy isn?t letting staff run his Instagram account. The result is an often amusing and entertaining series of pictures from the congressman. http://bit.ly/1bmTNGH
NO BAILOUT ? Lawmakers are telling Detroit they don?t plan to help. Reuters? Lisa Lambert reports: ?Republicans in the Senate want to make sure the federal government does not become involved in the financial maelstrom hitting Detroit, which filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history last week.
?They have proposed at least three "No Bailout" amendments to spending bills that the Senate is currently considering, all of which would limit the U.S. government's ability to help cities in fiscal crisis.Even though the amendments will likely fail in the Democrat-dominated chamber, cities and counties are alarmed by legislation they say could jeopardize funding for hundreds of local governments and are pushing back.? http://reut.rs/1aMApz9
LAMAR ALEXANDER UNDER FIRE? -- POLITICO?s Tarini Parti and Burgess Everett reports: ?When Lamar Alexander joined 13 other Senate Republicans to vote for the Gang of Eight?s immigration bill last month, he was waving a red flag in front of the tea party.
?Attending a rally in Smyrna, Tenn., last weekend, Alexander was greeted by a crowd of about 300 conservative activists ? organizers said ? wearing bright red T-shirts that read ?Beat Lamar? in big bold letters. They held signs that blared: ?You betrayed us? and ?No more RINOs. Conservatives only.?
?And to drive their point home, the activists lugged around a rhino mascot dubbed ?Lamar.?
?I didn?t hear anything they said; they were a mile away,? Alexander told POLITICO. ?They were enjoying their First Amendment rights, and I was enjoying playing ?Johnny B. Goode? with Mike Huckabee.?? http://politi.co/1aMzHlb
Reid wants to talk to McConnell more ? Roll Call?s Niels Lesniewski reports, ?Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he?s going to have to get back to meeting regularly with his Republican counterpart from Kentucky. The relationship between the Nevada Democrat and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has undoubtedly soured, particularly with the level of discord over the Senate?s rules and the treatment of filibusters.
?We?re going to have to start meeting on a regular basis. We haven?t been doing that. Bill Frist, who was his Republican predecessor, led the Senate for a number of years for the Republicans, he and I disagreed on a number of things,? Reid said. ?We met together virtually every week. And we have to get back doing that with Sen. McConnell.? http://bit.ly/1dYcbkY
Pelosi calls Weiner?s online behavior ?disrespectful of women:? http://politi.co/13egJhg
OBAMA: REPORTERS LIKE MY IDEAS -- The Hill?s Daniel Strauss reports: ?President Obama said reporters praise his economic proposals as ?great? and tell him they are ?all good ideas.? Obama made the remarks in a speech Wednesday in Galesburg, Ill., focused on the economy.? http://bit.ly/19kJReV
THE ONION ? An end of the week chuckle from The Onion: ?Congress Fiercely Divided Over Completely Blank Bill That Says And Does Nothing? http://onion.com/174fun7
CONGRESS ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL -- DEMOCRATS BRISTLE AT TRACKERS IN CAPITOL ? Buzzfeed?s Evan McMorris-Santoro and Kate Nocera report: ?Democrats are accusing Republicans of breaking down congressional comity even further by dispatching a ?campaign tracker? ? a young staffer sent to record a foe?s every word, in hopes of catching a damaging gaffe ? to stalk Democratic senators facing reelection while they?re at work on Capitol Hill.
?In the unwritten rules of Washington, it?s perfectly fine to have a tracker follow a member of Congress around when he or she is outside or at an event away from the Capitol complex. But Hill veterans on both sides of the aisle say a tracker in congressional office buildings and members? offices is unprecedented, and Democrats suggest the presence of a tracker in the Capitol complex is an intimidation tactic.
?A tracker from the new Republican opposition research firm America Rising was an unwelcome guest at Sen. Kay Hagan?s weekly Carolina Coffee open office hours session Wednesday morning. The tracker, a young woman accompanied by a North Carolina native who signed into the event, was on hand with a video camera and asked a question about the Democratic senator?s opinion on the budget proposal by North Carolina?s Republican Gov. Pat McCrory.? http://bit.ly/16hRo96
-- Republicans strategist are warning lawmakers: Don?t go to war -- http://politi.co/18D4gZP
-- Fact checking Kentucky: The Washington Post fact checks two ads in the Kentucky Senate race and finds fault with both. Two Pinocchios for the Bevin ad: http://wapo.st/18D3Dj5 And three Pinocchios for the McConnell ad: http://wapo.st/19m3OC9
THURSDAY?S TRIVIA WINNER ? Ron Lattin in Minneapolis was the first to write in that Ken Dahlberg was the name on the cashier?s check that tied the Watergate burglar?s to Nixon?s campaign. Dahlberg was never accused of wrong doing.
TODAY?S TRIVIA ? Sunday marks the 145th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment when, after disputes about ratifications being rescinded, Georgia ratified the amendment a week earlier. Like most amendments, states continued through history to vote on its ratification. Which state held the last successful vote to ratify the 14th Amendment? The first person to correctly answer gets a mention in the next day?s Huddle. Email me at ggibson@politico.com.
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