Ash Carter: “I thank you for the opportunity to be before this committee today and to continue that process of coordination and…”

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.

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

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