Ash Carter: “No. My testimony is that I can't speak for Saudi Arabia. I have spoken to Saudi Arabia.”

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

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

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.