By MICHAEL FALCONE

NOTABLES

• IN CASE YOU MISSED IT - RAND PAUL's CPAC THREE-PEAT: Sen. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky, was crowned the winner of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference-Washington Times Straw Poll for the third year in a row. The Kentucky senator said he was "humbled by the enthusiastic support and encouragement I received." Paul had gotten the crowd riled up, speaking with rolled-up sleeves, when he promised to pitch "a tax cut that will leave more money in the paychecks of every worker in America," ABC's BEN BELL reports. http://abcn.ws/1wzMtgN

• BEST OF THE REST: Coming in a close second in the poll was Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker with 21.4 percent followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Dr. Ben Carson and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who received 8.3 percent. The poll asked participants who they favor to win the GOP nomination in the next presidential election. There were more than 3,000 participants. http://abcn.ws/1wzMtgN

• WHAT DOES RAND'S CPAC WIN MEAN? The "This Week" powerhouse roundtable debated who's up and who's down after last week's CPAC conference. http://abcn.ws/1N5Oko1

• JEB BUSH 'WILL NOT SIGN ANY PLEDGES' IN 2016: Anti-taxman Grover Norquist recently told ABC News he believes Jeb Bush will likely sign his no-new-taxes pledge if and when he officially becomes a candidate for president. But, as Dana Carvey might say, "Not gonna happen." Norquist may have had good reason to believe Bush would sign the Taxpayers Protection Pledge, where candidates vow to oppose "any and all efforts to increase taxes." After all, the vast majority of Republican candidates for national office and many for local and statewide office have been signing it ever since Norquist started Americans for Tax Reform in 1985, according to ABC's JONATHAN KARL. But Jeb Bush didn't sign Norquist's pledge (or any other pledge) in any of his three campaigns for governor of Florida and Bush spokeswoman Kristy Campbell says he is not going to start now. "If Governor Bush decides to move forward, he will not sign any pledges circulated by lobbying groups," Campbell told ABC News. http://abcn.ws/1GALHpI

• ANALYSIS - ABC's RICK KLEIN: Jeb Bush didn't leave National Harbor with a CPAC straw-poll victory (he was a distant fifth), and he didn't leave having intimidated any of his presidential rivals out of the race. If anything, the hunger among attendees was to not have the nomination dictated to them - and surely not by someone with uncertain conservative credentials on key issues. But Bush seemed serious about his vow to be willing to lose the primary to win the general election. He didn't back down from his positions on immigration or education, and he showed good humor in the mixed reception he got. He followed it up with his campaign saying he won't sign the Grover Norquist anti-tax pledge - more evidence of a different kind of campaign. Another point: Bush is acting like the frontrunner, maybe even the incumbent. That filters do down even to the music - "Only in America," used by both his brother and President Obama at events - his team chose for his meet-and-selfie time with conference attendees. It's the kind of imagery that cuts both ways in a wide-open field like this one.

THE BUZZ

with ABC's VERONICA STRACQUALURSI

JOHN KERRY DOESN'T WANT BENJAMIN NETANYAHU VISIT TO BECOME 'SOME GREAT POLITICAL FOOTBALL.' Two days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak to a joint session of Congress, Secretary of State John Kerry said the prime minister is welcome to speak in the U.S. but worries it injects far too much politics into the relationship. "The prime minister of Israel is welcome to speak in the United States, obviously," Kerry said Sunday in an exclusive interview on ABC's "This Week." "I talk to the prime minister regularly, including yesterday." But, Kerry added, "we don't want to see this turned into some great political football." Kerry echoed frustrations expressed by the White House that House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to Netanyahu was inappropriate, ABC's JUSTIN FISHEL writes. "It was odd, if not unique, that we learned of it from the speaker of the House and that an administration was not included in this process," he said. "But the administration is not seeking to politicize this." http://abcn.ws/1AKtOnA

REPUBLICANS BLOCKING DHS FUNDING ARE 'DELUSIONAL,' REP. PETER KING SAYS. House Homeland Security Committee member Rep. Peter King Sunday called some members of his Republican caucus "self-righteous and delusional" for opposing a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security. "I said the other night, when I was at the Republican meeting, that they are self-righteous and delusional," King said on "This Week" of the Republican contingent holding up the bill because of their opposition to President Obama's executive action on immigration, ABC's LAURA WAGNER notes. "We're talking about maybe 40 or 50 people at most, out of a caucus of 247, out of a Congress of 435. We cannot allow such a small group to be dominating and controlling what happens in the United States Congress, especially at a time when we're confronting terrorism," the New York Republican told ABC's MARTHA RADDATZ. House Republicans have tied funding for DHS to legislation that would roll back Obama's executive orders on immigration, a move King calls "irresponsible." On Friday night, the House approved a one-week funding extension in order to avoid a partial shutdown, after voting down a longer extension. http://abcn.ws/1wEDLh2

SECRET SERVICE WORKING TO 'REGAIN THE TRUST OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,' SAYS DIRECTOR. The new head of the Secret Service has this piece of advice for anyone thinking about trying to breach White House security: Don't. "I wouldn't suggest it," Secret Service director Joseph Clancy told ABC News in an expansive sit-down interview that explored the scandals that have rocked his agency and the path he's now charting to protect the First Family and "regain the trust of the American people." "We have not received an unfair rap," he conceded to ABC's PIERRE THOMAS. "I think when you fail, and we have failed, we own it. Now, it's up to us to correct it." Clancy said the more time he spends leading the Secret Service, the more he realizes an insider like himself is the only one who could get that job done. Two months ago, a bipartisan, independent panel commissioned by the Obama administration to analyze the embattled agency recommended someone with no experience inside the Secret Service, saying "only a director from outside" can "do the honest top-to-bottom reassessment" needed. "You need some experience in this position," Clancy told ABC News, adding he plans to win over skeptics. WATCH: http://abcn.ws/1EXX1ek

WHO'S TWEETING?

@OKnox: Superb timing for @jeffmason1 interview with Obama - target-rich news environment. First Q probably Iran/Bibi-related.

@DougHeye: Washington Post: GOP infighting in Va. may harm party's White House bid in 2016 http://wpo.st/Xr360

@JamesPindell: AP: @marcorubio "allies fully expect that he will run for president, rather than a second Senate term" http://news.yahoo.com/floridas-rubio-close-decision-presidential-run-081416772-election.html … #fitn

@jeneps: Emily's List hasn't yet endorsed Hillary Clinton but it's been laying the groundwork for her '16 run for years http://bloom.bg/1BPsMsP

@JCNSeverino: The left working the media to lobby Chief Justice Roberts trying to sway him again on #Obamacare. Save the arguments for the courtroom.