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Hey, good morning, playbookers. I'm Rookman-Avalon. It's Monday. Lawmakers return from recess this week, but what can they actually get done?

This is your Politica Playbook Daily briefing.

Lawmakers returned from recess this week to an ever-growing February to-do list before President Joe Biden's

March 1st State of the Union address. And the pressure is on. The White House and Vulnerable

House Democrats are desperate to quickly pass a $250 billion package aimed at boosting manufacturing

and relieving supply-side constraints to tout the speech. But Congress also has to avert a government shutdown and possibly begin vetting a Supreme

Court nominee.

And that's nothing to say about trying to resuscitate build back better.

Here are the three biggest things we expect to take up most of the air in Congress this week.

First up, a complicated competition bill.

As Politico Sarah Ferris reports this morning,

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's House Democrats will be in tunnel vision this week as they cleared their own version of a send-past

China competition bill, which garnered 19 GOP votes last June.

Given those rare bipartisan numbers, you would think it would sail through, but guess again,

the House bill dubbed the Competes Act,

is full of controversial Democrat-sponsored trade provisions that Republicans say are troubling.

That means this thing is going to a conference where Senate Republicans will have all the leverage,

given that 10 of them are needed for passage.

Number two, the never-ending appropriations negotiations.

The government runs out of money February 18th. Appators are still haggling, over a long-term

spending deal, with Republicans feeling zero pressure to make a deal that they don't like.

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