Ash Carter: “I urge the Congress to act to prevent sequestration and ensure the safety, security, and resiliency of our Nation.”

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.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

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