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Speaking from the state dining room fewer than 12 hours after signing the legislation that brought D.C. back to work Thursday morning, President Obama outlined three longstanding policy priorities that he hoped Congress would take up — immigration, the Farm Bill, and a budget — all three of which have been similarly stalled by the House Republican caucus.

"There are no winners here," the president said about the shutdown, though he thanked the "Democrats and responsible Republicans" that voted to avoid default and re-open the government. "The last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy," he said — but the scale of the damage wasn't yet clear.

At a moment when our economic recovery demands more jobs, more momentum — we got yet another self-inflicted crisis that set our economy back. And for what?

"The good news is," he continued, "we'll bounce back from this. We always do."

But his main point was to outline his priorities — all of which, he didn't need to say, have been stalled in the House.