Good morning! Allow me a correction: yesterday’s Daily News incorrectly described the ballot-counting situation in Florida. A provisional ballot from a non-citizen was ruled ineligible, not batched in with other votes believed to be fraudulent. I corrected the error HERE and I’m sorry about phrasing that wrong.Here’s your Daily News for Tuesday, November 13.

• Lordy, that was a terrible show. Let’s get past it.
• Today, newly-elected Republican State Representatives will be in Montgomery for the first of their Caucus meetings.
• The full orientation sessions won’t begin until December 11, but the House GOP has a good reason to get started early: they have 24 new members this year.
• In total there are 39 new state lawmakers, including 35 Republicans in both chambers. That makes the incoming class uniquely influential if they want to be.
• Democrats added some new faces as well that could bring energy to their ranks, but they also lost long-serving Members with loads of institutional knowledge like Reps. John Knight, Marcel Black, Richard Lindsey and Johnny Mack Morrow. How Minority Leaders Anthony Daniels and Billy Beasley use the legislative process to score wins and compromises will be interesting to watch.
• AL.com’s Mike Cason has a good write up on the new look of the Legislature that is worth a read HERE.

• When lawmakers in September agreed on a landmark spending package to avert a government shutdown, they left the hard decisions on Homeland Security funding to after the midterms.
• Now Republicans want their border wall money and Democrats are determined to fight it.
• Read more on that HERE.

• One little-known upshot of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ ouster is the renewed prospect of a prison sentencing reform package.
• Sessions, ever the law-and-order type, has opposed Sen. Chuck Grassley’s and Trump son in law Jared Kushner’s push to do away with mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug crimes and take away the regulation that makes it a federal crime to possess a firearm while committing another crime.
• Now, with Sessions gone, Grassley, Kushner and other sentencing reform allies believe now is their chance.
• Don’t expect the tough-on-crime crowd to back down, though. Conservatives in the House and Senate – including those in the Alabama delegation – are readying for a legislative battle to keep certain portions of law strict.
• Trump is expected to render his judgment within the next few weeks. Support would mean a departure from his law-and-order campaign, but it could also get him the ever-elusive big bi-partisan win.
• Read more from Nick Fandos and Maggie Haberman in their exclusive New York Times story.

A Message from The Poarch Creek Indians

• Being productive, staying connected and helping Alabama thrive are embodiments of the Poarch mission to create goodness out of what we have.
• That’s the message of the Poarch Creek Indians’ new advertising campaign that continues this week.
• Poarch’s 2018 campaign includes two much-anticipated commercials, “Land” and “Craft” — real stories about real people in the place they call home.
• Iconic images send hopeful messages about traditions, which fuel life and help lay the groundwork for a better future.
• Everyone that you meet on screen and in voiceover is Poarch Creek. All scenes and locations are authentic to the Tribe.
• Click here to watch the second spot, “Craft.”

• U.S. Rep. Martha Roby has promoted Mike Albares to Chief of Staff following the departure of Torrie Matous.
• Anyone who has ever visited Roby’s Capitol Hill office has probably met Mike – he’s served on her staff for seven years, most recently as Legislative Director and Deputy Chief of Staff.
• Torrie departs after more than 18 months as chief to become External Affairs Director at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.
• Mike is a Dothan native and well-known to the agriculture community. He will serve as Roby’s top adviser overseeing offices in Washington, D.C., Montgomery, Dothan and Andalusia.
• The ascent to Chief of Staff is a big deal in the career of Capitol Hill staffers, and Mike’s moment just happens to be coming on his 30th birthday.
• Happy Birthday, Mike, and congratulations!
• Full story HERE.

• Lt. Governor-elect Will Ainsworth has named longtime Marshall County delegation adviser Judy Miller his Chief of Staff.
• Ainsworth said Miller has more than 30 years of experience “working with legislators from both parties, drafting bills and resolutions, and handling constituent services,” for the entire Marshall County delegation.
• “During my service as a state representative in Marshall County, Judy’s professional and political talents were obvious, and I am proud to have her lead my staff and help enact my agenda,” he said.
• Miller said Ainsworth wants to make his Lt. Governor’s office “the most active and responsive in Alabama history.”
• Congratulations!
• Read more HERE.