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congressional reporter for the guardian s us newspaper and joined me a short time ago to explain the shape state of play. explain the shape state of -la . , explain the shape state of play. they managed to government play. they managed to government shutdown | play. they managed to - government shutdown with play. they managed to government shutdown with hours to spare, as you said, passing through the senate this morning and then it came down to the house and the house also passed it with a bipartisan majority. it was subject to a lot of kind of contentious debate, actually, in the weeks leading up actually, in the weeks leading up to it because democrats wanted to pair one of the other issues facing congress, which issues facing congress, which is the debt limit, with the stopgap funding measure but they had to strip it out because republicans refused to back it and so they have passed what is known as a team continuing resolution, a tcr, that keeps the government funded t