Ash Carter: “I certainly require your consent. But in view of the challenges to the Department, I'm going to need your advice, too.”

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

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.

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.