Jack Reed actually said...

would it make sense to review those provisions and give you more flexibility and ways in which you could conduct military-to-military dialog...

My role is to try to highlight those challenges and to make sure that whatever decision is made addresses them as effectively as we can.

I commend you for the careful and thoughtful and hard work that went into the National Defense Strategy.

We cannot dig ourselves out of the current readiness crisis in just 2 years.