Ash Carter: “We are trying to stick up for the principle that Iraq is a single, unitary, multi-sectarian state.”

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.

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.

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.

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