Ash Carter: “I am honored by his trust and confidence, and also by the prospect of serving once again the troops and the country that…”

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.

The goal of United States policy in Syria is to end the Syrian war--civil war.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

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