Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who never fails to show up for D.C. parties that are mostly reporters talking to other reporters, for the Sunday shows, which are a harder sell for other lawmakers not named Manchin, and for banquets that most everybody in the capital dreads going to for the seventh time (who really wants to go the Radio and TV Correspondents’ Dinner again?). In an era when most lawmakers, and certainly most senators, would never dream of attending a reception filled with staffers, reporters and hangers-on, Klobuchar stands alone. Former aides have told us they’ve told her she'll be the only senator there, but that won't stop her from earning a SPOTTED in Playbook. And this is to say nothing of her talent, immense by even senatorial standards, for shifting every conversation back to her and her pet bill of the moment, like when Jake Tapper asked her about Sen. Joe Manchin’s role in Build Back Better negotiations last February. “Those negotiations are continuing,” she said, before pivoting sharply: “as they are on voting rights. … He is behind the bill that I’m leading, the Freedom to Vote Act.” (Yes, Klobuchar is both namesake and recipient of the award, because she's singular.)

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