Ash Carter: “I will take the $52 billion, too.”

Chairman McCain, I appreciate your comments to our Service Chiefs about the damage the CR can do to our institution.

Iran's ballistic missile activities pose a significant threat to the Joint Force and our regional allies and partners, particularly Israel.

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.