Ash Carter: “Sequestration will almost certainly challenge our ability to do so to the fullest extent our servicemembers and their…”

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

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

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

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.