Ash Carter: “Iraq will be stable and secure only when it has a stable and inclusive government that addresses the needs of Iraq's…”

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

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

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.

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