The Hill Articles: January 17, 2018

Durbin: Majority of Senate will support DACA deal Haitians barred from applying for visas for low-skilled work in U.S. Hawaii reps call for hearing on missile alerts after false alarm Bannon slammed House Russia probe as attempt to ‘decertify’ Trump’s election: report Gowdy: Bannon has a credibility issue Trump: ‘I get more exercise than people think’ Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ lead with CNN, ABC’s Ross, NY Times’s Krugman New CFPB director puts target on payday loan rules Lawmakers see path to bringing back earmarks Dems harden line on stopgap measure Social media trolls Trump over broken link to ‘Fake News Awards’ Tillerson prints out Trump tweets while planning policies Graham goes off on WH, colleagues over immigration fight Arizona has had enough of Jeff Flake’s partisan nonsense House Dem vows to bring Trump impeachment vote to floor ‘again and again’ Kimmel spars with Ryan staffer over CHIP Overnight Health Care: Lawmakers weigh measure to fight high drug prices | Panel advances HHS nominee | Dems question move to end mental health registry Overnight Regulation: Consumer bureau chief launches review of agency | Dems search for 51st net neutrality vote | EPA official declines to testify at Superfund hearing | Cordray slams move to unwind payday lending rule Lobbying world Budowsky: Mega-landslide for Dems? NYT to run letters from Trump supporters in place of op-eds Thursday Shutdown drama grips the Capitol Poll: 83% of Virginians support Medicaid expansion Kelly: WH did not tell Bannon to invoke privilege in Russia testimony Kelly: Mexico won’t pay for border wall ‘directly from their government’ Senate DACA deal picks up GOP supporters GOP accuses Dems of playing politics with children’s health care Overnight Defense: North, South Korea to march together at Olympics | Lawmakers react | Trump says Russia helping N. Korea skirt sanctions | Tillerson lays out Syria strategy with indefinite US military commitment Overnight Cybersecurity: Tech execs testify on countering extremist content | House approves cyber diplomacy bill | Pentagon reportedly mulling nuclear response to cyberattacks Don’t shortchange the EPA — businesses and communities depend on the agency Overnight Tech: Tech giants detail fight against extremist content | Senate Dems look for 51st vote on net neutrality | House to hold hearing on Hawaii missile alert | Twitter to notify users who saw Russian 2016 content Overnight Finance: Shutdown drama grips Capitol | White House backs short-term spending bill | Mulvaney begins consumer bureau shake-up Opponents urge Congress to suspend ObamaCare tax this year GOP senator: The way Congress makes deals ‘pretty much sucks’ Top Intel Dem: Lewandowski refused to answer questions in testimony Overnight Energy: Head of oil lobbying group to resign | EPA’s Superfund point man won’t testify | Toyota shoots down EPA partnership Wisconsin Dem governor candidate calls for pardoning marijuana offenders More Dem senators announce they’ll oppose funding bill over immigration fight Dem senator: I’m ‘optimistic’ we can pass an infrastructure bill March for Life should be about more than abortion Survey: Few big companies planning wage hikes after GOP tax plan Trump touts high score on cognitive test All hype and hot air: The digital currency bubble may be bursting Dems after Asia trip: No ‘illusions’ about N. Korea’s nuclear work amid Olympics talks Grassley under fire for planning vote on 17 judicial nominees Cory Booker defends conduct toward female Cabinet secretary as ‘on point’ Germany shows how shifting to renewable energy can backfire Trump weighing major ‘fine’ on China for intellectual property theft Dem lawmaker apologizes to Kelly months after calling him ‘disgrace to the uniform’ Kelly told Dems some of Trump’s immigration promises were ‘uninformed’: report Dear CEOs: If it ‘aint broke,’ fix it anyway Bipartisan group of senators ask Trump to fund broadband in infrastructure plan Positive Train Control prevents derailments — we must fund it EPA official declines to testify at Superfund hearing Listen: Bannon in Russia investigation spotlight Half of Americans support alternatives to full marijuana legalization: poll Tillerson outlines plan for long-term US military role in Syria What America loses by fat-shaming the president McConnell: Trump’s support key for immigration legislation Murdoch hospitalized after accident on son’s yacht Michelle Obama thanks Barack for flowers in birthday post Graham: Seoul ‘undercutting’ Trump by allowing North Korea at Olympics White House kicks DACA fight back to Congress Trump calls immigration proposal ‘horrible’ ‘Gang of Six’ DACA bill is an exploitative political statement Senate Dems push for health center funding in spending bill Interior cheers resignations of national park advisers Franklin Graham: Trump ‘beaten up’ for something ‘he says he didn’t say’ Schumer: Senate Dems broadly opposed to House funding bill Senators press Trump to boost school funding in infrastructure package Doing the right thing for persecuted Coptic Christians Twitter to inform users exposed to content from Russian accounts Watch live: Trump attends Bob Dole congressional gold medal ceremony Toyota says it won’t partner with EPA despite Pruitt claim An antidote for our poisoned politics WATCH: ‘Accidents can happen,’ GOP rep says about possible shutdown ‘Fire and Fury’ set for TV adaptation House votes to restore State cyber office, bucking Tillerson Senate panel advances Trump’s nominee for Health secretary WATCH: GOP rep says Trump and media need to ‘call a truce’ Journalist imprisoned in Iran returning to Washington Post to cover foreign affairs Consumer bureau asks for complaints about agency practices ahead of major shake-up Facebook, Twitter, YouTube detail fight against extremists at Senate hearing No presidential power is beyond Congress Trump accuses Russia of helping North Korea evade sanctions Graham to oppose short-term House funding measure Apple plans to generate $350B, create 20K jobs in US next five years Top Dem sees ‘path forward’ on Iran bill White House defends itself after Bannon’s House interview New York, Connecticut sue EPA over out-of-state pollution Gay US Olympian: I won’t ‘go out of my way’ to meet Pence Washington must contain the real Iranian threat to Middle East peace White House slams Flake: He is looking for attention Former Energy employee says he was fired for leaking photos of Perry with coal mogul White House backs short-term spending bill Facebook to investigate Russian interference in Brexit campaign White House pushes back on claim that Trump has heart disease Working people are watching, Mr. President Minnesota senator celebrates Vikings’ victory in team colors with king cake USA Gymnastics revokes fine to allow gymnast to speak at sentencing of former doctor Republican senator compares US politics to an episode of ‘Jerry Springer’ RNC accuses Booker of ‘mansplaining’ to DHS chief Trump to address March for Life via satellite Poll: Majority says Trump is dividing nation, not uniting The partisan politics of personal destruction House conservatives demand vote on tough border bill to avoid shutdown Raúl Labrador, a model for Hispanic politicians reaching higher Katie Couric returns to NBC to co-host Olympics opening ceremony Poll: Most men say Trump is mentally stable — most women disagree Humana credits GOP tax bill for boost to employee benefits, wages Poll: Oprah beats Trump by 13 points in hypothetical 2020 matchup Poll: Majority of voters say Trump respects whites more than people of color McCarthy met with birther activists in 2013: report Azar indicates commitment to value and outcomes-driven health care Republican senator puts hold on Trump’s trade nominees CBC chairman ponders boycott, demonstration during State of the Union The Hill’s 12:30 Report WH official: House panel broke ground rules for Bannon interview No, the US did not spend $43 million on a gas station in Afghanistan Dem senator: Tom Cotton ‘wants a shutdown in the worst way’ Zuckerberg urges people to call Congress over DACA Watch live: White House press briefing Dems press Amtrak for train safety update Walmart, Carrier firings highlight glaring flaw of new tax bill Senate Democrats blast House GOP government funding measure Cordray blasts consumer bureau’s ‘pseudo-leaders’ over payday loan rule review Schumer: House funding bill ‘a loser’ Bannon attorney relayed questions to White House during House interview: report Trump administration highlights 31 contaminated sites with business potential We need online civility as nation recovers from Russian influence Pro-immigrant group launches campaign following ‘s—hole’ comments Senate Dems campaign group raised $5.8 million in December Adult film star: Trump cheated with me FULL SPEECH: Sen. Jeff Flake on Trump’s ‘shameful’ attacks on press Poll: Support for Trump tax law increasing Mueller looking into suspicious Russian transactions in US: report The only way to battle opioids is to find holistic approaches to pain management Everything can’t always be about Trump Dems question decision to end registry for substance abuse, mental health programs Conservative group targets Dem leadership over shutdown fight Flake rips Trump over ‘shameful’ attacks on press Christie becomes first NJ governor in decades to avoid breaking leg Two senators present for Flake’s anti-Trump speech The next tax reform: Internet sales tax Financial Times: Swedes being told how to prepare for war Corey Lewandowski: Trump’s trade deals will put American workers back on top Virginia activist leaves GOP after Trump’s ‘s—hole countries’ comments: report Cruz: ‘It’s time for North Korea to fear what America will do next’ Watchdog: Political rights in US decline under Trump Trump incorrectly claims that approval among black Americans has doubled Scarborough questions White House doctor’s report of Trump’s weight From ethos to action: Creating a service movement Risk of confrontation between major powers up sharply: survey Head of top oil lobbying group to step down Pro-ObamaCare group launches ad ahead of vote on HHS nominee Two Dem House members back challenger to anti-abortion rights Dem House panel to hold hearing on false Hawaii missile alert Colbert jokes Trump paid off doctor to say he’s not obese Watch live: Flake gives speech criticizing Trump’s attacks on media Sen. Blumenthal a ‘no’ on short-term spending bill Fifty years on, HUD abandons Dr. King’s vision of integrated communities ‘New California’ campaign wants to create 51st state by splitting rural areas from coast North and South Korea to march together at Winter Olympics Gowdy: Mainstream media still trying to figure out how Trump won Avoiding the self-inflicted wound of a federal shutdown isn’t hard Eric Trump says his father’s not racist: He ‘sees one color: green’ Fallon parodies Trump’s ‘Fake News Awards’ Trump plans new protections for health workers who refuse to perform abortions, treat transgender patients: report Poll: Most want Mueller to finish Trump-Russia probe Trump must realize Reagan’s vision for Star Wars defense — and soon Women’s March organizers to launch voter registration tour Ky. gov threatens end to Medicaid expansion without work requirements GOP rep on deported Detroit man: ‘There are a bunch of sad stories’ Ann Curry ‘not surprised’ by Lauer allegations Give Trump new nukes and we are that much closer to war Shutdown wouldn’t stall Mueller probe Relief from ObamaCare taxes should be on the agenda for Congress Sanjay Gupta: By all standards, Trump has heart disease GOP rep: Durbin should have confronted Trump over comments at meeting Trevor Noah: The only thing that looks healthy about Trump is he’s ‘shaped like a food pyramid’ Booker: Trump’s comment ‘gut-churning’ Pentagon mulls nuclear response to cyberattacks: report Business as usual for corporate broadcasters is killing cable Wolff gained Trump White House cooperation with flattering book title: report Congress should vote down this harmful debt collection legislation Scott Walker warns GOP to ‘wake up’ after Dems flip deep-red Wisconsin district Poll: Oprah outperforms Warren, Gillibrand among Dems It’s time to scrap federal physician quality measurements 60 percent of State Department’s top-ranking career diplomats have left: report Tax cut supporters should stop talking about corporate bonuses Bannon plans to cooperate with Russia probe: reports US national security policy past as present in Afghanistan Hundreds of Yelp reviews describe Trump hotel as ‘s—hole’ 2018 will be a year of consequences Barbara Jordan’s wisdom is needed in today’s immigration debate Only Putin wins in Trump’s war on the press Trump’s Medicaid reform will benefit the poor, sick and disabled 2020 Dems pose a big dilemma for Schumer The Memo: Trump’s volatility scrambles prospects of a deal on DACA Perfect storm builds against Republicans in California Lawmakers weigh measure to fight high drug prices Listen: Lawmakers say shutdown fears are real US farmers need sound immigration policy for agricultural workforce