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YOUR GOVERNMENT: OPEN. YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS: Confused, stifled, frustrated -- well, some of them. Many of them are quite happy with the outcome. Many of them pretend they're unhappy, but are actually quite pleased. Washington, man. Whatta town. 

Good Friday morning from the House gallery, where at 5:32 A.M., REP. DOUG COLLINS (R-Ga.) dropped the gavel, ending a tense 20-minute House vote, in which Democrats made Republicans sweat. Dems held their votes back at first, seeing how many Republicans would vote yes on the big budget to keep government open. AT 5:27 A.M., REP. RUBEN GALLEGO (D-Ariz.) turned toward lawmakers with his two thumbs down, and Democrats appeared to be released to vote.

WHEN DEMOCRATS STARTED voting, CHIEF DEPUTY WHIP PATRICK MCHENRY (R-N.C.) yelled "come on in!" as yes votes ticked up.

THE FINAL VOTE TALLY: 240-186. THE TWO-YEAR BUDGET -- with hundreds of billions of dollars in fresh federal spending -- passed the House and Senate, and is headed to THE WHITE HOUSE for PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP'S signature. 

73 HOUSE DEMOCRATS voted for the budget, and 119 voted no (h/t Elaina Plott, Matt Fuller Mike DeBonis). HOUSE MINORITY LEADER NANCY PELOSI and WHIP STENY HOYER secured absolutely nothing after trying to hold SPEAKER PAUL RYAN'S feet to the fire to allow an open and unruly immigration debate on the House floor. GOVERNMENT IS FUNDED until March 23 and the debt ceiling is lifted into 2019. RYAN says the House will now move to work on a DACA solution. 

67 HOUSE REPUBLICANS voted against the bill. This might seem like a lot, but this was a big, pricey budget. We're shocked 167 REPUBLICANS voted for the budget. That's a big vote for GOP leadership, especially on a bill with nearly $400 billion in new spending, and a debt ceiling lift.

-- IF YOU TOLD US a few months ago that Republicans would pass a massive budget and debt limit and Paul Ryan would not be in mortal danger, we would've laughed. 

CONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS CHAIRMAN MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM (D-N.M.) approached Ryan after the vote, shook his hand and asked him when he'd take up DACA.

IT WAS A VERY LATE NIGHT -- or early morning -- in the U.S. Capitol, where Republican Washington plunged into its second government shutdown of Donald J. Trump's presidency. This time it was SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY.) who dragged out a filibuster until the wee hours of the morning because of what he termed profligate spending. 

THE MAIN DIFFERENCE between the House and the Senate is the Senate vote was never truly in doubt. The Senate voted 73-26 to end debate and advance the two-year budget bill. THE HOUSE gaveled into session at 3:21 a.m. with senior aides -- and many members of GOP and Democratic leadership -- unsure whether they would be able to pass the two-year budget deal. 

DETAILS ... PELOSI got onto the floor at 3:42 a.m., and began speaking at 3:54 a.m. She did not go for eight hours, as she did earlier this week. She spoke for fewer than 10 minutes and urged PAUL RYAN to allow a vote on all immigration bills. During Pelosi's talk there was a low murmur among members, leading a few Democrats to stand up to declare that the House was not in order.

... AT AROUND 4:33 A.M., Pelosi and Hoyer huddled at the Democratic whip table. She was toting a few pieces of paper while she spoke to her colleagues. ... AT 4:39 A.M., JOE CROWLEY -- who many consider to be the leader in waiting -- went to talk to HOUSE MAJORITY WHIP STEVE SCALISE. It was a quick and friendly chat. 

LET'S BE CLEAR -- There was never going to be a vote on any immigration bills right now. Republicans stood firm that immigration action would begin after this budget process. Dems eventually relented.

DEMOCRATS -- BEFORE THE SHUTDOWN ... LET'S REVIEW ... IN THE LAST 24 HOURS ... NANCY PELOSI said Thursday morning she liked this budget bill, she negotiated it, fought for her priorities in it, and would not gin up her colleagues against it, but would merely tell everyone why she was going to vote no. Then, shortly after, STENY HOYER decided to rally his colleagues -- who happen to be Pelosi's colleagues too -- against the budget bill. PELOSI then started whipping against the budget bill, her allies told us.

-- AT THE SAME TIME, PAUL took to the Senate floor to rail against debts and deficits. For much of the time, the floor was empty.

-- THE DIFFERENCE between this shutdown and last is Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan were all on the same side, leaving House Democrats in the cold.

LET'S SEE WHAT BURGESS EVERETT HAS TO SAY ... : "Rand Paul took a stand, consequences be damned. And Senate Republicans are livid about it.

"After driving the government into a brief shutdown over his demand for an amendment to cut government spending, the Kentucky Republican took friendly fire from a significant number of his Republican colleagues for delaying an inevitable passage vote in the Senate. They accused the senator of misusing the Senate's time for no real reason other than to draw attention himself.

"'It's a colossal waste of time,' said Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.). 'He never gets a result.' 'He's tilting at windmills. Don Quixote, you know,' said Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.)." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be422d5fd72df99f43ea01957de62cff6438bde8b84d1fa00278f6a7e05088a58ca4fc2e4313e48bb92

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PUT SUCCINCTLY ... RACHAEL BADE and SEUNG MIN KIM: "The dumbest shutdown ever": "Rand Paul and Nancy Pelosi have virtually nothing in common. But on Thursday night, the conservative Kentucky firebrand and San Francisco Democratic leader teamed up to push Washington toward what Capitol Hill dwellers are calling the dumbest shutdown ever.

"Incensed that a bipartisan budget deal would balloon the national debt, Paul delayed a roll call on a long-term budget agreement even as the government barreled toward a midnight deadline when agencies run out of money. Never mind that his protest won't change a single word of the document.

"Pelosi, meanwhile, rallied House Democrats against a bipartisan agreement that she herself helped write. Exasperated lawmakers and staffers settled in for an all-nighter with the sole purpose of allowing federal employees to show up for work in the morning. A shutdown had been so unthinkable that the Office of Management and Budget did not issue guidance to agencies until dinner time, hours before funding would run dry." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be45e452682c257993757ef34f3a321e926cf1d278208c981696e4a117b71e8a281f82934c2e8d8140a 

MORE PORTER FALLOUT ... WHO KNEW WHAT WHEN -- "Kelly knew before abuse reports that Porter would be denied security clearance," by Eliana Johnson: "White House chief of staff John Kelly was told several weeks ago that the FBI would deny full security clearances to multiple White House aides who had been working in the West Wing on interim security clearances. Those aides, according to a senior administration official, included former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, who left the White House on Thursday after reports that he physically and verbally abused his two ex-wives. 

"The White House chief-of-staff told confidants in recent weeks that he had decided to fire anyone who had been denied a clearance - but had yet to act on that plan before the Porter allegations were first reported this week. Kelly's inaction has produced what may be the deepest crisis of his seven months on the job, unleashing a cascade of questions about whether Trump - who was accused by multiple women during the 2016 campaign of sexual impropriety - and his closest advisers take violence against women seriously at a time when the #MeToo movement has called other politicians, media moguls and entertainment icons to account." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4cef0c6d0430ff15131f20065881af37a732f97a9cd32ea7b7276b71099b6ae1b4064d59caceb7145

-- @kaitlancollins: "The White House is all over the map with Rob Porter. He was terminated, he quit, they accepted his resignation, his final day isn't set, his final day was yesterday, they weren't aware of photos, weren't 'fully aware,' not the guy they knew, 'not going to get into specifics.'"

-- NYT's Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Katie Rogers and Maggie Haberman: "Among the questions he left behind was whether Mr. Kelly and other members of Mr. Trump's inner circle had been willing to ignore accusations of domestic violence to protect a trusted aide. ... [T]wo people close to the White House said that Mr. Kelly and Joe Hagin, the deputy chief of staff for operations, as well as Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, had known of the issues since late fall. ... 'I think it's fair to say we all could have done better over the few hours or last few days in dealing with this situation,' [Raj] Shah said." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be40265dae63e237a231645ba5fafaded53420c71caa9334ba0e290950b477d2035e0d0bfa88e4a8311

GABE SHERMAN in Vanity Fair, "'He Was F---ing Pissed': With Rob Porter Gone, the Heat On John Kelly is Increasing": "The crisis also raises questions about Hope Hicks's decision-making, and whether her romantic relationship with Porter clouded her judgment. According to a source, Hicks did not get a sign off from Trump for the White House's initial statement defending Porter, in which Kelly was quoted calling Porter a 'man of true integrity.' ... [Thursday] morning, Hicks continued to defend Porter in private, a source said, telling people she thinks the allegations aren't true. ... [Wednesday] night, a source said, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski called Trump and urged him
 to fire Kelly."  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be46dc57deda0efecd52a6813fd708dc9e663a28c27f2b33dc173224bd84f49bc51d841ca05e144cb64

BIG STORY -- THE BIGGER QUESTION -- "Dozens at White House lack permanent security clearances," by WaPo's Josh Dawsey, Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett: "Dozens of White House employees are awaiting permanent security clearances and have been working for months with temporary approvals to handle sensitive information while the FBI continues to probe their backgrounds, according to U.S. officials. People familiar with the security-clearance process said one of those White House officials with an interim approval is Jared Kushner - the president's son-in-law and one of his most influential advisers." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4751782585763aa0700df0246523fbcfbbd63e6f1f45eca8026323f1f1619178de605de8ff0d7720c

-- "Email to FBI: Porter's friend 'actively working to quell' background check issues," by CNN's MJ Lee: "The current husband of one of Rob Porter's ex-wives emailed the FBI last January expressing concern that a close friend of the former White House aide was 'actively working to quell' background check issues. Skiffington Holderness, the current husband of Porter's first ex-wife, Colbie Holderness, said in an email to the FBI obtained by CNN that he had several conversations with Porter's friend, Bryan Cunningham. 

"The email details those conversations, including one in which Cunningham allegedly reacted positively when Holderness said his wife was not inclined to talk to the FBI regarding Porter's background check. Cunningham, according to the email, said 'that was good,' she was 'not obligated' to speak with the FBI, and that they should 'bury the past.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4a77d87d03b2016b4db5a75791d42a8bf0bec4e0ba7507756ec655aaa955a5a70b2aca7d1ba9fb2c0 
 
IMPACT ON KELLY -- "Unwelcome Attention for John Kelly, the Man Enlisted to Bring Calm," by NYT's Peter Baker and Maggie Haberman: "Among the many people agitated this week over John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, was President Trump. And among the people the president called to express dissatisfaction, according to those close to him, was none other than Reince Priebus, the previous chief of staff, who also irritated Mr. Trump. The idea that the president would confide grievances over Mr. Kelly with the person he pushed out to hire Mr. Kelly is yet another indication of how upside-down Mr. Trump's world can be.

 "In the West Wing, various characters fall in and out of favor with such rapidity that it is never entirely clear who has the president's ear. ... All of which has again fired up the will-he-last speculation that has erupted periodically in the six months Mr. Kelly has been in office. Mr. Trump has recently asked advisers what they think of Mick Mulvaney, who currently holds twin posts as director of the White House budget office and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, as a possible chief of staff." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4ad2c9475bec4f39a88c3eeafb4cc390534ce9c3aff5f6f6eeb29961b04db78dff8bb90004a3fb3aa 

-- JOHN KELLY's memo to White House staff yesterday: "While we are all processing the shocking and troubling allegations made against a former White House staffer, I want you to know that we all take matters of domestic violence very seriously. Domestic violence is abhorrent and has no place in our society. We understand the shock, pain and confusion that these allegations have cause in our workplace. It is important for me to tell you -- you are not alone. Resources are available here at the White House for anyone who is seeking counseling." The full memo http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be454fd432563f4f5ef97006b919b27a594cbcbc7da60ffd18e4c3785ae1c92859f2d4c3aa9cf15a3a4

SEXUAL HARASSMENT FILES -- SCOOP: "Former Cato employees describe years of harassment: Libertarian leader and ex-Cato President Ed Crane repeatedly made inappropriate sexual comments, staffers say," by Daniel Lippman and Maggie Severns: "Three former employees of the famed Cato Institute say they were sexually harassed by Ed Crane, the 73-year-old co-founder and president emeritus of the think tank and one of the most recognizable figures in the libertarian movement. 

"One former employee said Crane asked her to take off her bra. Another said he compared her breasts to pornographic images on his computer. A third said he sent her an email on breast augmentation. Crane also settled an additional sexual harassment claim by a former employee in 2012, her lawyer confirmed to POLITICO. Crane ... denied several of the incidents or said he didn't recall them before ending a brief interview. ...

"Crane retains the title of president emeritus at Cato and was paid more than $400,000 annually from the powerful think tank in the years after he left, but a Cato spokesperson said his consulting contract has ended and he is no longer employed by the think tank. ... On at least one other occasion, a former employee said he raised concerns to a senior Cato official about Crane harassing one of his female employees. The senior official, Executive Vice President David Boaz, did not confirm or deny having received the complaint, saying in an email, 'I'm sorry, I can't comment on alleged cases or remedies.' ...

"Whenever a new crop of interns arrived, which happened three times a year, Cato would distribute headshots and short bios of the interns to staff. The handout was colloquially known by some men around the office as 'The Menu,' according to two former Cato employees." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4ae415d4d56fadeae1052e714989987297970250fa3ae88809f2f45286fd5bee661bd887054c480a0

AT THE PENTAGON ... "Trump's favorite general: Can Mattis check an impulsive president and still retain his trust?" by WaPo's Greg Jaffe and Missy Ryan: "State Department ambassadors say they have spent more face-to-face time with him than they have their own boss, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. ... By picking his battles and staying out of the media spotlight, Mattis has built influence throughout the government. He has won admirers at Foggy Bottom, the home of the State Department, by reserving a seat for State Department officials at his meetings with foreign defense ministers. The same officials said they have struggled to get into similar meetings with Tillerson and his foreign
 counterparts. ...

"In contentious meetings last summer on Afghanistan, Mattis and his top aides often dominated the process. He spoke regularly to mid-level aides representing the Defense Department at White House meetings so that they could forcefully advocate the Pentagon's position. By contrast, senior representatives from the State Department often seemed to have little clue where their secretary stood, officials said." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be405372d8b93eeba4e541e7e57239e9bffeb6af0e7512c0e529e665acd411dd5c2b9436159688f0bd2

RUSSIA WATCH -- "Senate Intelligence Committee Writing Report on Election Vulnerabilities Ahead of Midterms," by WSJ's Byron Tau: "The Senate Intelligence Committee is drafting a report on vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system that is expected to be released in the coming weeks, according to lawmakers and aides, in what will be the first product of a yearlong investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee said they hope to have it completed by March. ... The report is aimed at making recommendations to state, county and local governments about how best to protect their election infrastructures in advance of the 2018
 midterm elections. Texas and Illinois will both hold primary elections in March, while eight more states will hold elections in May." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4d3f2e30f0d42740d86993cdd237c70c38caec4dfd5030b4874a010f47839d736d9819d8fc0e72171

-- "FBI surveillance of Carter Page might have picked up Bannon," by Kyle Cheney: "The FBI was monitoring Carter Page when the former Trump campaign adviser says he spoke with Trump adviser Steve Bannon about Russia in January 2017, raising the strong possibility that the FBI intercepted a conversation between the two men. Page told Congress in November about the call. But it has been cast into a new light by last week's release of a Republican memo revealing that the FBI was monitoring Page's communications at the time. ... 

"The significance of a possible FBI recording depends on the exact content of the conversation between Bannon and Page, about which Page has been vague. But it means the FBI's surveillance of Page - which has been the subject of intense partisan anger in Washington - may have touched one of the highest-ranking figures in Trump's incoming administration just days before inauguration." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be47c8e8202828e306a97985c7cbe2cec35f585ddb77a2cf8d56b9d56ed14b401af1366755069a4de2e

THE JUICE ... 

-- BIG TIME -- "'Pod Save America' Is Coming to HBO," by NYT's John Koblin: "The premium cable network has signed a deal with the hosts of the popular 'Pod Save America' podcast to broadcast a series of hourlong TV specials later this year. ... 'Pod Save America' averages around 1.5 million listeners a show. HBO made the deal with Crooked Media ... HBO plans to have the hosts do their specials on the campaign trail in the run up to the 2018 midterm elections." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4a093e15077f75865f365d30774d764d8c6e793f6841feb40f396a2aa990122741090f458901edb67 

-- AIR WARS -- Per KEVIN ROBILLARD: "VoteVets ... is going up with a $1 million buy boosting Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin. The ad aims to counter a $1.5 million buy from the Koch-backed Concerned Veterans for America, which is attacking Baldwin over her handling of a scandal at a Wisconsin veterans facility where doctors overprescribed opiates, leading to at least one death. The VoteVets ad will run for the next three weeks on television and digital." The ad  http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be47057ebe9c63ebc47541abe40f2b14d88ed143b7c5eb25e487f04ea7718141db012404ab8f3d2eb7b

          Playbook Reads         

PHOTO DU JOUR: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the Senate chamber shortly before midnight on Feb. 8. | Jon Elswick/AP Photo

WHAT CHUCK SCHUMER IS READING ... -- "Senate Democrats in Trump States Raise More Than GOP Challengers," by Bloomberg's Bill Allison and John McCormick: "Senate Democrats in this year's toughest re-election races have raised millions more than their Republican opponents as the party looks to turn donor anger over President Donald Trump into success at the polls in November. The 10 incumbents facing re-election in states won by Trump raised $19.9 million during the last three months of 2017, while 24 Republicans competing in primaries to select their challengers raised $6.6 million ... The Democrats had a combined $71.3 million in their campaign accounts as of the end of the year, nearly
 four times more than the Republican candidates, which had about $20 million and must still fund primary campaigns." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be44b6e7d3778b18422ca9c1234be75e43441ec471dad209f13453a3780bd2ae178bf4a9dc4c58a346c 

FOR YOUR RADAR -- "U.S. Secretly Offered Iran a Channel for Talks on Prisoners," by WSJ's Farnaz Fassihi and Felicia Schwartz: "The Trump administration secretly reached out to Iran in December to propose creating a direct channel to negotiate the release of prisoners held by each side, U.S. officials and people briefed about the discussions said, marking the first U.S. diplomatic overture to Iran on the issue under President Donald Trump.

"However, Iran didn't respond and, despite at least three subsequent offers from Washington, so far has refused to engage with U.S. officials on the offer ... The apparent impasse leaves uncertain the fate of at least four Americans currently in Iranian detention. The U.S. offer in December represented the first time since Mr. Trump took office that the administration had signaled its willingness to engage in a potential prisoner swap." http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be49d887d6f345db50caa5999238c46452a48ee6d578fdcb220cae4fe42b2e1d0b45810f3caf2c4efe9

TRUMP'S AMERICA -- "Exclusive: Trump administration may target immigrants who use food aid, other benefits," by Reuters' Yeganeh Torbati: "The Trump administration is considering making it harder for foreigners living in the United States to get permanent residency if they or their American-born children use public benefits such as food assistance, in a move that could sharply restrict legal immigration. The Department of Homeland Security has drafted rules seen by Reuters that would allow immigration officers to scrutinize a potential immigrant's use of certain taxpayer-funded public benefits to determine if they could become a public burden." 
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FUN READ -- MICHAEL LEWIS in Bloomberg View, "Has Anyone Seen the President? Michael Lewis goes to Washington in search of Trump and winds up watching the State of the Union with Steve Bannon": "Fox News fills both screens. Bannon enters, takes one look at the scene and says, 'Can we change it to CNN? My brain already hurts.' He advised a president who couldn't take his eyes off cable news, but he himself detests it. 'I can't watch a second of it,' he says. 'Zero.' ... Going to Davos was bad enough. This talk coming from the White House about softening its stance on the so-called Dreamers is another. Bannon thinks the reasons for both are the same: Trump's White House has been spooked by
 recent polls ... showing a collapse in his approval by women, especially white women.

"'It's a total free fall,' he says. ... Melania Trump enters the House chamber, and finds her seat. 'She's wearing suffragette white,' Bannon says. 'Suck on that.' ... He's got a pair of phones out and is scrolling through the speech, the text of which someone has just sent him. As he reads his face flushes. 'They have path to citizenship in here,' he says, matter-of- factly. 'It's terrible. It's a betrayal.' ... When Trump points to yet another of his props in the balcony, Bannon drifts out to get a Diet Coke. ... [H]e's preoccupied by Trump's upcoming offer to the Dreamer kids. When Trump finally utters those words, Bannon cannot fathom them. 'It's unbelievable,' he says. 'Terrible,
 terrible.'" http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be453f021b8d635f38f6c183d71d77404ca9d827cf405658ff3e2088eb7a8739b8ca8622e22a435064d 

SUNDAY SO FAR - CBS' "Face the Nation": Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) ... Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). Political panel: Susan Glasser, Peter Beinart, Ramesh Ponnuru, Susan Davis

--"Fox News Sunday": Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) ... Panel: Jason Chaffetz, Guy Benson, Rachael Bade, and Juan Williams. Power Player: Charles Bowery of the U.S. Army Center of Military History on the Army's art collection.

--NBC's "Meet the Press": Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) ... Clint Watts. Panel: Kristen Welker, Peggy Noonan, Eddie Glaude Jr., Erick Erickson

--ABC's "This Week": Panel: David Axelrod, Alex Castellanos, Matthew Dowd, Megan Murphy, Cecilia Vega

--CNN's "State of the Union": Jeh Johnson. Panel: Rick Santorum, Jen Psaki, Karine Jean-Pierre, Linda Chavez

--CNN's "Inside Politics" (hosted by John King): Julie Hirschfeld Davis, Karoun Demirjian, Seung Min Kim, Mary Katharine Ham

TV TONIGHT - LESTER HOLT is interviewing Vice President Pence for "NBC Nightly News" ahead of the opening ceremony for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

TV TODAY - Jennifer Willoughby, an ex-wife of Rob Porter, is sitting down for a live interview this morning with Savannah Guthrie on the "Today Show."
                  Playbookers         
SPOTTED: Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Abbe Lowell last night at Morton's Steakhouse ... former Sen. Dick Lugar (R-Ind.) at the National Press Club's Reliable Source yesterday for lunch where "he had the buffet and greeted a couple of well-wishers as he made his way to his table by the window," per our tipster ... Hallie Jackson and her father attending the Eagles victory parade yesterday in Philadelphia -- pic http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be45943a03ef0b314663ca1a5d23f2513f3136186de1bf9a8f7c2c4022ac8e0ce9a894f78f3a0f99772 ... Former Connecticut Rep. Chris Shays in the Capitol Thursday afternoon. 

SPOTTED yesterday at the opening of the University of Pennsylvania Biden Center in D.C. which featured a conversation with former Vice President Joe Biden and NBC News' Andrea Mitchell (mini ice cream cones were served for dessert): UPenn President Amy Gutmann, Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Mark Warner (D-Va.) and Chris Coons (D-Del.), former Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Tom Daschle (D-S.D.), and Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) ...

... former Secretaries John Kerry, Eric Holder, Chuck Hagel, Loretta Lynch, and Bill Cohen, Susan Rice, Avril Haines, Lisa Monaco, Wendy Sherman, John Podesta, Tony Blinken, Steve Ricchetti, Steve Clemons, David Cohen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Michael Froman, Patrick Steel, Sheila Nix, Capricia Marshall, Matthew Swift, Jeremy Bash, Michele Flournoy, Mike Froman, Colin Kahl, Chris Matthews, Liz Sherwood-Randall, Vinoda Basnayake.

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe is 61. How he got his start in politics: "My father, my hero, Jack McAuliffe was the treasurer of the Onondaga County (N.Y.) Democratic Party. By the time I was 8, I was his top deputy and lived, breathed politics twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. At 23, I took a leave from Georgetown Law to be President Carter's national finance director for his 1980 campaign. Despite the President's plea not to do it, I wrestled an 8-foot alligator in Florida for a $15,000 campaign donation. The rest is history...." Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://go.politicoemail.com/?qs=b00b6dae60f51be4619ae2069804f88aec6b79b701a3e6501df9704dcc212a1b586446a6388e04de100f2de47bfc20c2 

BIRTHDAYS: Manu Raju, CNN senior congressional correspondent ... Roger Mudd is 9-0 ... former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) is 72 ... Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is 66 ... Uber alum Alex Priest is 29 ... L.A. Times alum Abbe Goldman ... Nancy Reynolds Bagley ... Larry Rasky, chairman and CEO of Rasky Partners ... Kristen Hayford ... Judy Kaplan ... Rep. Todd Rokita (R-Ind.) is 48 ... former Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-N.C.) is 54 ... Audrey Scagnelli ... former Rep. Gary Franks (R-Conn.) is 65 ... Anna Perina of Democracy Forward ... Carly Abenstein, senior account executive for healthcare at Ruder Finn and Obama WH alum ... Boris Zilberman, deputy director of congressional relations at the Foundation for
 Defense of Democracies, is 34 (h/t Mallory Shelbourne) ... Sam Hofstetter, research manager at KRC Research ... Rusty Greiff (h/t Jon Haber) ... Van Freeman ... Jay Michael Plant ... Kelly Lungren, COS for Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.) ... Aaron Kraut ... Teal Pennebaker ... Joe Pinsker, associate editor at The Atlantic ... Anne Plummer Flaherty ... Gail Huff is 55 (h/t Colin Reed) ...

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