Ash Carter: “I pledge my personal support to this effort as well as the support of the entire staff of the Department of Defense.”

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.

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.