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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Thursday, October 17th.

I'm Amelia Lester in this week for Dorothy Wicenden.

The debt ceiling crisis has ended,

and federal workers are back at work.

Congress has finally passed legislation

to fund the government through January 15th

and lift the debt limit through February 7th.

Hopefully next time, it won't be in the 11th hour.

One of the things that I said throughout this process is we've got to get out of the habit

of governing by crisis.

That was President Obama speaking on Wednesday night to talk about this latest round of

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