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Hello, welcome to the Punch Bowl News Readback Podcast.

I'm your host, congressional reporter Max Cohen.

Today I'm joined by Laura Weiss, who's here to talk all things government reopened.

Laura, how you doing?

Hey, I'm good.

Thanks for having me, Max.

It's great to be here.

The government is open again.

We're here in the Capitol, so a whole new day here.

It's been a while.

It's been a while.

It's been a government shutdown was our main mode of

operation for the past month and a half. But we want to talk on this week's episode about what

happened in the Senate and in the House. The House was back for the first time in over 40 days.

Let's start with the Senate, though. Things move very quickly once they got going,

and it was a late Monday night vote that finally unlocked the funding agreement and Senate over

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