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Hey, good morning, Playbookers. I'm Ragum Winovalin. It's Thursday. Same-sex marriage is on the

cusp of passing the Senate, but landmines still remain. It's your Politico Playbook daily briefing.

It would have been unthinkable just a few months ago, let alone a decade ago, but senators

of both parties are growing optimistic, they can overcome a filibuster, and pass a bill enshrining

same-sex and interracial marriage as soon as this month.

On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters a same-sex marriage vote

will happen on the Senate floor in the coming

weeks. All 50 Democrats are ready to vote yes, while Senators Tammy Baldwin and Susan Collins

are leading the effort to find the 10 Republicans needed. Two Senate aides close to the negotiations

tell playbook that Baldwin pulled Collins and Senators Tom Tillis and Kirsten Cinema into our office

Wednesday to organize the final whip effort, reviewing whom they'd already spoken to,

and discussing whom else they might target.

Those aides tell Playbook that a federal same-sex marriage law is within grasp for two big

reasons.

For one, the overturning of Roe v. Wade cast new doubt on the assumption that same-sex

marriage is in fact settled law, something that Senator Rapportman acknowledged in a Fox News

interview with Brett Baer Wednesday evening. In my view, is the appropriate role of Congress to

speak here and to be sure that, one, we are ensuring that people who are in relationships already aren't at risk of

losing the ability to move from state to state, which is really what this is about. And then, two,

we've got to be sure that we're not keeping on the books legislation that says that states don't

have to honor other states, which is currently the law on the books.

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