Good Wednesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing. Stay tuned after the show for a message from pharma.

And I'm Jake Sherman and the train keeps rolling. The House will vote today on holding AG Bill Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt.

The House leadership needs to deal with Al Green's impeachment resolution, which he introduced Tuesday.

The Mueller hearing is one week from today, and Speaker Nancy Pelosi strategized with committee chairs about Trump investigations

Tuesday night and is planning to talk to a wider group about pending litigation this morning.

The president has no control of a capital that has spun wildly away from him. He has become fixated with junior

members of Congress and even had to work to keep Republican defections to a minimum on the vote

to condemn his tweets. He'll be in the White House all day with nothing on his schedule until a

late afternoon departure to North Carolina. So what took so long? Tuesday's debate to condemn the

president took a lot longer than it was

meant to because Speaker Nancy Pelosi read the title of the bill, which called the president's

comments racist, a violation of the decorum rules of the House. So Republicans try to take down

her words, a process of undoing the remarks by a member of Congress. Representative Emmanuel Cleaver of Missouri, who was presiding over the chamber abandoned in protest.

Eventually, after some back and forth, the House voted against striking her remarks and restored her ability to speak.

Here are the four Republicans who broke with Trump.

Representatives Will Hurd, Fred Upton, Brian Fitzpatrick, and Susan Brooks, who is retiring.

Representative Justin Amash, a Michigan Independent who recently left the GOP, also voted with Democrats to condemn the president.

Burgess Everett and James Arkin have a piece up on Republicans' choice, stand with Trump,

or risk his wrath. The New York Times notes that Trump is setting the 2020 tone just like 2016,

but this time he has the foil, the squad.

Caitlin Emma and Sarah Ferris have the latest in the Caps' debt limit deals.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi cited progress in her talks with Stephen Mnuchin last night

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