Ash Carter: “Sequestration will have a disruptive and negative impact on both the Department's long-term research and on investments…”

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.

"Up-or-out" isn't broken--in fact, it's an essential and highly successful system--but it's also not perfect.

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

The United States will not ignore attempts to interfere with our democratic processes.