Ash Carter: “That's the aim and the path that Secretary Kerry is on.”

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.

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.