Ash Carter: “I'm grateful that our country's leaders were able to come together last fall to avert that dismal future”

I can't support, and won't support, is anything that moves towards instability.

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.

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