Ash Carter: “It is, absolutely, and it actually began in this committee before I took office.”

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

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.

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.