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The recent cyber-attack on Sony is just the latest of millions upon millions of attempts (more than a few successful) to hack into our corporations, research institutions, banks, major retailers and government agencies -- including the Pentagon.

For the last 15 years or so, we have been in an ongoing war with hostile nations, opportunistic hackers and cyberterrorists out to steal our money and individual identities, shut down our infrastructure (including our energy grid), and destroy...

Congress has been passing continuing resolutions instead of normal budgets for the last few years.

CRs just continue previous spending without any substantive changes. Passing a CR prevents a government shutdown if there is no budget and the government has run out of money. CRs can be for short or long periods.

With the government about to run out of money this week, Republicans had an opportunity to pass a short-term CR during the lame duck session to fund the government...