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12:50 PM ET, January 28, 2015

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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Republican leaders look for escape plan on immigration  —  Republican leaders in the House and Senate are boxed in on immigration and searching for a way out.  —  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) are struggling to find a way to fund the Department …
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Alex Roarty / National Journal:
The ‘War on Women’ Isn't Over Yet  —  Critics say Democrats' focus on “women's issues” failed in 2014, but the party has no plans to abandon the line of attack.  —  Democrats are far from finished with their “war on women” campaign strategy, midterm losses be damned.
Discussion: Washington Post and Instapundit
Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
House plots new lawsuit against Obama's immigration orders  —  The House is taking action to sue president Obama over his executive actions that gave legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.  —  Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) apprised House Republicans of the plan, which is still being finalized …
Politico:   Homeland Security funding on the brink
Bernie Becker / The Hill:
Obama scraps plan to tax college accounts
Discussion: Weekly Standard and Politico
kff.org:
Kaiser Health Tracking Poll: January 2015  —  Bianca DiJulio, Jamie Firth, and Mollyann Brodie … The Public's Views Of King V. Burwell And Exchanges  —  The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case, King v. Burwell, in March about whether the health care law says people in all states …
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Domenico Montanaro / PBS NewsHour:
Republicans to vote on repealing Obamacare ... again  —  Today in the Morning Line:  — House's first month has focused on base issues without much chance of getting to the president  — Why another Obamacare vote?  Freshmen want to say they voted against it  — Law remains unpopular, but people like the subsidies
Josh Kraushaar / National Journal:
Obama Is Setting Up Hillary Clinton to Fail  —  The president's approval rating is inching up, but there's little public enthusiasm for his liberal agenda.  That puts Clinton in an uncomfortable position.  —  President Obama delivered his penultimate State of the Union with renewed confidence …
Discussion: Politico
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Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
What to call a president's husband? Bill Clinton has ideas
Discussion: OnPolitics and New York Magazine
Politico:
Koch donors give Marco Rubio early nod  —  Straw poll at donor summit rates 5 GOP hopefuls.  —  Getty  —  The Koch brothers' conservative network is still debating whether it will spend any of its massive $889-million budget in the Republican presidential primaries, but the prospect …
Kendall Breitman / Politico:
Michelle Obama's uncovered head draws Saudi Twitter critique  —  First lady Michelle Obama faced backlash from Twitter users in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday for not wearing a head covering during her brief visit there with the president.  —  Obama wore loose-fitting clothes including a long blue jacket …
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New York Post:
Sheldon Silver to resign as Assembly speaker  —  Scandal-scarred Sheldon Silver Tuesday night agreed to resign as the powerful Assembly speaker.  —  Silver's decision to quit — amid calls from fellow Democrats to do so — came less than a week after being busted by the feds for allegedly using …
Discussion: Gothamist and Fox News
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Bloomberg.com:
Sheldon Silver Built Power by Speaking Softly While Punishing Foes
Discussion: JP Updates
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Obama drops proposal to cut tax benefits of 529 college savings plans  —  President Obama on Tuesday abandoned a proposal to end a major tax benefit of popular college savings accounts used by millions of American families after the White House faced mounting criticism from lawmakers and parents.
Discussion: The Week and Eschaton
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Politico:
The importance of being Ernst  —  The just-elected Iowa senator aims to be a player in 2016.  —  DES MOINES, Iowa — Sen. Joni Ernst hasn't been in office a month, but she's already delivered the GOP response to the State of the Union.  And now the Iowa Republican is looking to parlay …
Adam B. Lerner / Politico:
Mike Huckabee complains of ‘trashy’ women at Fox News  —  Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a recent radio appearance that while in New York for his Fox News show, he experienced significant culture shock from all the “trashy” women swearing in a professional setting.
Andrew Roth / New York Times:
North Korean Leader to Visit Russia in May  —  MOSCOW — North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, plans to visit Moscow this May in his first trip abroad since assuming power in 2011, a Kremlin spokesman announced on Wednesday.  —  The confirmation from Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman …
Discussion: Weekly Standard and The Week
Maayan Lubell / Reuters:
Anti-tank missile fired at Israeli military vehicle on Lebanon frontier: army  —  (Reuters) - An anti-tank missile was fired at an Israeli military vehicle near the Lebanon border on Wednesday, wounding four soldiers, a military source said.  —  The incident came several hours after Israel launched …
Wall Street Journal:
Indiana Governor to Expand Medicaid Coverage  —  Move Comes After Securing a Key Concession From Obama Administration  —  Indiana on Tuesday announced plans to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act after securing concessions from the Obama administration that could pave …
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Borys Kit / Hollywood Reporter:
New All-Female ‘Ghostbusters’ Cast Chosen  —  The Paul Feig-directed reboot is eyeing a summer shoot in New York.  —  Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy  —  The all-new, all-female Ghostsbusters are here.  —  Melissa McCarthy, who was already in talks for one of the leads …
New York Times:
Jordan Offers to Release Terrorist in Exchange for Pilot Held by ISIS  —  AMMAN, Jordan — The Jordanian government agreed on Wednesday to release a convicted terrorist in exchange for the freeing of an air force pilot captured by Islamic State militants in Syria a month ago …
Politico:
GOP lawmakers confront Jim DeMint over ratings  —  Conservatives accuse his group of being too harsh on them.  —  Long-simmering tensions between the Heritage Foundation, its sister political arm and House Republicans erupted Tuesday during a weekly meeting of conservatives …
Discussion: Washington Post
Seung Min Kim / Politico:
Loretta Lynch defends Obama's immigration action  —  Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch told key senators Wednesday that the Constitution will be her “lodestar” if she becomes the nation's chief law enforcement officer, as she pledged a fresh start with a Congress that's had rocky relations …
Discussion: Bloomberg Business
 
 
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Josh Gerstein / Politico:
ACLU moves to block return of ‘torture report’ to Hill
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Discussion: Fox News
Byron York / Washington Examiner:
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Austin American-Statesman:
Rick Perry loses second request to dismiss case against him
Evan Greer / The Hill:
Congress: You can't fool the public on net neutrality
James Fallows / The Atlantic Online:
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