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Hello and happy Wednesday. I'm Adrienne Hurst with your Playbook Daily briefing.

This is the so-called boring Biden presidency, as Politico Sam Stein tweets,

massive J&J vaccine news, a readout of a call with Putin with news of a potential summit,

newsbreak of a full Afghanistan withdrawal by 9-11.

Ulogy for a killed Capitol police officer all before noon yesterday. And don't count on a break

today. Already Pelosi gave us some news last night. Mark your calendars for two weeks from today,

April 28th. That's when the House Speaker has formally invited President

Biden to address a joint session of Congress. It'll be like a state of the union address, but a lot

smaller and socially distanced. An official involved in the planning said there will be a limit

on the number of lawmakers allowed to attend in keeping with COVID protocols. And another person

told us they think that number

could be as low as 200 instead of the usual full Congress, 535 members. But all those details are

still being worked out. Lawmakers will also be barred from bringing guests, and the whole thing

will be designated as a national security event, meaning extra protection for everyone.

Back to today, though, all eyes are on Senator Maisie Hirono's hate crimes bill. The chamber is set to vote on

whether to open debate on the bill, and while many Senate watchers were dead certain Republicans

would mount their first legislative filibuster of the year by blocking it,

that's not how things are shaping up. Instead, GOP senators announced they'll vote to advance it today,

possibly with some minor tweaks. Mitch McConnell chimed in with cautious support,

the husband of former Transportation Secretary Elaine Chow, the first Taiwanese-American to be appointed to a cabinet position,

he said he's hoping his caucus can work out an agreement to join the bill.

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