Senate Armed Services Committee Holds Nomination Hearing For Ashton Carter To Be Secretary Of Defense

Senator Angus King, a Democrat from Maine, from left, Senator John McCain, a Republican from Arizona and chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, former Connecticut Senator Joseph ÒJoeÓ Lieberman, and Senator Martin Heinrich, a Democrat from New Mexico, talk during a break of a Senate Armed Services Committee nomination hearing with Ashton Carter, former deputy secretary of defense and U.S. President Barack Obama's nominee to be U.S. secretary of defense, not pictured, in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015. Carter pledged to stop cost overruns and other wasteful spending, even as he pleaded for relief from automatic budget cuts that will resume in October.