As the House of Representatives votes to temporarily fund the government and end the longest shutdown in American history, Rep. Scott Peters (D-CA 50) joins Politically Speaking to talk about what Democrats learned from the shutdown and what happens now.

Below is the transcript of the full interview:

Safchik: Congressman, what was this shutdown for?

Peters: Well, you know, we have to do a budget every year. It's supposed to be done by September 30th. From time to time, more than we'd like, it takes longer than that, and we have to do an extension. This time, we were frustrated, as Democrats, that Republicans hadn't even started talking about what the budget was going to look like even until the day before the deadline. So, we were concerned about health care. We asked that health ca

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