As Congress ended the 2017 session, there were still a number of important issues left unaddressed. They did manage to pass another Continuing Resolution (CR), to keep the government running through January 19, 2018. A CR is basically a “kick the can down the road but not too far down the road” piece of legislation that extends the prior year budget with some additional pieces of legislation thrown in. As we’ve said before, the Federal Budget year begins on 10/1 so the Gover