Ash Carter: “Removal of these restrictions will allow us to move forward on this essential component of the rebalance to the…”

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

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

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.