Ash Carter: “Their actions are--as I--the phrase I've used is 'pouring gasoline on the civil war in Syria.'”

China has and shares important responsibility for this development and has an important responsibility to reverse it.

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

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.

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