Ash Carter: “The current drawdown plan uses a time-phased approach for the withdrawal of United States forces.”

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.

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.

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

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