Michael Young, of Pennsylvania, to be a Member of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission for a term of six years expiring August 30, 2020. (Reappointment)

On this National Day of Service and Remembrance, we take up their unfinished work and pay tribute to their lives with service and charity.

I invite the Governors of the United States and its Territories and interested organizations and individuals to join in this observance.

We will degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.

In their spirit, let us resolve to move forward together and rededicate ourselves to the ideals that define our Union.

H.R. 3522 would roll back the progress made because of the Affordable Care Act.

As we come together once more to mourn their loss, we also recall how the worst terrorist attack in our history brought out the true character of the American people.

ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.

We are not going to work with the Assad regime in going after ISIL because they have no legitimacy in the Sunni communities.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) poses a clear threat to the people of Iraq and Syria.

Michele Thoren Bond, of the District of Columbia, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Minister-Counselor, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Consular Affairs), vice Janice L. Jacobs, resigned.

America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat.

I call upon all departments, agencies, and instrumentalities of the United States to display the flag of the United States at half-staff on Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance in honor of the individuals who lost their…

I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq.

Our goal is clear: to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.

These are values that have guided our Nation since its founding.

We cannot rely on an Asad regime that terrorizes its own people.

Our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this Nation.