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It's Friday morning. I'm Olivia Reingold, and this is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

Here are two quick stories driving the day. One, Senate Republicans are gearing up to initiate their first filibuster of the Biden administration.

That's in order to take down the proposed commission already passed by the House that would look into the Capitol riot.

Politico's Burgess Everett is reporting that yesterday, at a GOP lunch,

Senator Susan Collins made one last plea to her colleagues to get on board with

the Independent Commission. But Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is set to win the day after

an increasingly hard push against the bill that's happened in public and behind closed doors.

A vote is expected to take place early this morning just as the East Coast is waking up.

Two, before the Senate votes on a January 6th commission, it first needs to wrap up its work on a bill meant to make the U.S.

tech and research sectors more competitive with China.

The measure, dubbed the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, calls for more than $250

billion in new research funding, with a particular emphasis on microchip production, an area

where China is far outpacing the U.S. with a global shortage putting pressure on Congress to act.

The bill is set to be the final major bipartisan victory the Senate can achieve this year,

with several other cross-isle negotiations on different issues stalling.

We've been skeptical about the odds of a bipartisan infrastructure deal coming together,

but here are some dynamics making this the little negotiation that could.

One, Democratic senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Cinema are still deeply invested in the talks.

This whole week, Manchin has been bullish on a deal in his public statements.

Then on Thursday, when the Republicans announced a new $228 billion counterproposal,

he gave reporters this highly complimentary statement captured by a reporter at CBS.

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