Ash Carter: “It is important that people in the region, both our friends and potential opponents, understand that we have the…”

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

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

What he's trying to do is exactly what you're calling attention to, namely to end the humanitarian disaster occasioned by the civil war in Syria.

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.