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Hey, good morning Playbookers and Rugu Minovalin. It's Tuesday.

In today's show, what's in the way of voting reform getting through the Senate?

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Here's the big thing to watch out for on Capitol Hill today, or at least on Virtual Capitol Hill.

Senate Democrats will hold a virtual meeting at 1245

p.m. Eastern Time. It'll be the first opportunity of the new year for all 50 members to talk

about where Build Back Better 2.0 stands, and what they think of Senate Majority Leader

Chuck Schumer's new voting rights push. As one playbook author put it, I'm guessing Ryan Lizza,

on both issues, every utterance of Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema will be examined like a

hair respects inspecting a sheep liver. You'll have to ask him.

As we mentioned yesterday, voting rights and election reform will dominate the debate in

Washington over the next few weeks.

To be fair, meeting self-imposed deadlines has not exactly been a strong suit for the Dems in the last

year, but Schumer said Monday he wants the Senate to consider rules changes by January 17th.

The voting rights legislation is filibustered.

So far, this has been a Democrats-only debate. We've mostly heard a lot of sniping

and Schumer from Republicans on the sidelines, but one important dynamic to watch for is whether

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and his colleagues move from simply attacking Schumer here to making

a substantive counteroffer. There's a movement afoot to get congressional Republicans to back some narrow but important

reforms, and Schumer will have to make some tough decisions if McConnell embraces them over

the next two weeks.

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