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Hey, good morning, playbookers. I'm Raguamun Ovalin. It's Tuesday. The center of legislative

intrigue on Capitol Hill is bipartisan election reform. But here's the question,

where does the Biden administration stand? This is your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

Officials from the Biden administration are deeply engaged in a host of bills snaking through Congress.

On Russia's sanctions, press secretary Jansaki said Monday, quote,

we are working very closely with Congress.

On build that better.

That quote, there's a lot of discussion among members, their staffs, committees,

and were engaged in those as well.

Ditto for the government funding bill that must be passed by February 18th and the China competitiveness bill under negotiation.

But there are now nine Republicans and seven Democrats working to hammer out an electoral

reform bill.

Many of them worked together successfully on bipartisan COVID relief

and the bipartisan infrastructure framework. Last night they met and settled on a list of

issue areas they would tackle, the Electoral Count Act, protecting election workers and officials,

voting practices and rights, the Election Assistance Commission, Presidential Transitions, and

contingent elections. They appointed pairs of bipartisan co-chairs to run subgroup and rights, the Election Assistance Commission, Presidential Transitions, and Contentioned

Elections. They appointed pairs of bipartisan co-chairs to run subgroups on each issue.

Mention and Collins are in charge of ECA reforms and aim to reunite this weekend to check

the group's progress. The gang's meeting to agree to another meeting merited a stakeout and

plenty of coverage. A CNN headline read, quote,

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