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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook Audio Briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. This is new. John Boehner's new book has a name, a cover, and a release date, and it's all as delicious as you would have hoped.

On the House, a Washington memoir will be released April 13, 2021. The cover has a photo of Boehner drinking red wine, with a cigarette burning in an ashtray in a very Washington-like room. St. Martin's Press is the publisher and the deal that was negotiated by Javelin. Matt Latimer, the founder of Javelin, says it's the most honest memoir about how Washington really works ever written. That's a high bar. It includes stories about George Bush,

Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Mitch McConnell, and Joe Biden. Capital Hill is approaching

an exceedingly volatile stretch. Government funding is hitting a slight snag, and the Supreme Court

nomination process is about to launch. On government funding. Members of Congress in both parties are peaved that

critical ag funding has been left out of the stopgap funding measure, which is designed to fund

the government until December 11th. Republicans fought for the money and Democrats resisted. This

would appear to be only a speed bump for the moment, although the government will shut down in eight

days absent congressional action. The House will vote on the stopgap measure today. It will

pass on something resembling party lines. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell then has a decision

to make. He can try to amend it with farm money, but we expect Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer will block that. So McConnell will have to decide how to proceed. Latest in the Supreme Court's today, the Senate lunch will be focused on the Supreme Court nomination process, at least in part. It begins around 1230 and we'll wrap with the GOP Leadership News Conference around two. Here's what we're watching for. Mitt Romney told a group of us last night that he was going to wait until he spoke to his colleagues to comment on the Supreme Court process and the timing of the nomination. Our colleagues, Burgess Everett and Marianne Levin, write that they don't see Romney splitting with Trump. And here are a few Supreme Court truisms. And considering when a Supreme Court nominee will get a floor vote, think of this. McConnell will move when he has the votes, not a minute before and not a minute later.

There is a genuine desire to hold the vote before the election, then that looks like it'll happen because McConnell is racking up the votes quite quickly.

As of now, Senator Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski have said they don't believe a vote is appropriate before the

election. McConnell can only lose two more members. Romney could be one, but it's tough to see who the

other one is at this moment. Senator Lindsay Graham, the Republican of South Carolina, told

Sean Hannity plainly last night that they had the votes, and they're going ahead

with hearings and a floor vote in the next few weeks. There seems to be a general recognition

that it is way too risky to hold the vote during a lame duck. Number one, Senator Martha

McSally, the Republican of Arizona, is expected to lose and will be replaced by a Democrat

in November.

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