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Good Tuesday morning, I'm Adrienne Hurst.

Welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, where today, it might not be Halloween,

but Playbook co-author Rachel Bade is taking us on a trip to the legislative graveyard.

Hoof, is it getting a little chilly in here? Just me?

Okay, Rachel, this is creepy. I'm handing it over to you.

For years, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has bemoaned Mitch McConnell's, quote, legislative graveyard.

The place where bills she shepherded through the Democratic House would go to die, as she liked to say.

Now, Chuck Schumer is about to become the cemetery caretaker.

Democrats are looking at a serious hangover once they celebrate getting COVID relief signed into law,

courtesy of the Senate filibuster. During a meeting with her leadership team on Monday night,

Pelosi laid out plans to turn her chamber over the next two weeks until a factory for Democratic priorities.

They'll move everything from election reform to a policing overhaul to gun control, plus

women's rights and unions rights and a pathway to citizenship for dreamers.

They're all things Joe Biden campaigned for, and they're all DOA in the Senate, that is,

dead on arrival.

Some may not even garner a single Republican vote, let alone

the 10 needed to break the filibuster. Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, appeared to hint

at this coming reality when a reporter asked him last week when his chamber would clear the

Equality Act. Another top priority the House passed last week. At the exact right time was his cheeky response.

Translation, half pass never, probably, because of the Senate rules.

Pressure on Democrats from progressives to kill the filibuster is sure to mount as the party's

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