Good morning. I'm Paige Winfield Cunningham from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

202 for Tuesday, January 26th.

In today's news, House Democrats plan to focus impeachment trial on how

Rioters reacted to Trump's remarks. And the first US case of a highly

transmissible Brazil coronavirus variant has been identified in Minnesota.

But first, here's the big idea.

Last night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell signaled he would step back from an ultimatum

over Senate rules that had sparked a partisan showdown and threatened to obstruct President

Biden's early legislative agenda.

McConnell said he was ready to move forward with a power-sharing accord with Democrats

on how to operate the evenly divided Senate, diffusing a potentially explosive clash over the minority's rights to block partisan

legislation.

The Post Mike Debonus reports that McConnell had been concerned about the fate of the

filibuster.

That Senate rule that acts as a 60 vote supermajority requirement

for most legislation.

With many Democrats calling for its elimination, as their party takes control of the

House Senate and White House,

McConnell had sought assurances from the new Senate majority leader

Senator Chuck Schumer that the filibuster would be preserved.

Democrats bristled at the request, demanding that McConnell agreed to a power-sharing arrangement

that followed the model used during the last 50 to 50 Senate in 2001.

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