Ash Carter: “Our military efforts in Syria are intended to defeat ISIL and regain, for local forces, the territory now being…”

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

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.

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

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.