Barack Obama

Michael P. Botticelli, of the District of Columbia, to be Director of National Drug Control Policy.

Gilberto de Jesus, of Maryland, to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration.

In the end, H.R. 5078 would sow more confusion and invite more conflict at a time when our communities and businesses need clarity and certainty around clean water regulation.

Peter Michael McKinley, of Virginia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.

I applaud the efforts of Prime Minister Abadi and other Iraqi leaders in forming a new, broad-based government.

Colette Dodson Honorable, of Arkansas, to be a Member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Nancy Bikoff Pettit, of Virginia, to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Republic of Latvia.

Clarifying the scope of the CWA helps to protect clean water, safeguard public health, and strengthen the economy.

Haywood Stirling Gilliam, Jr., of California, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of California, vice Claudia Wilken, retiring.

ISIL poses a potential threat to the U.S. homeland if left unchecked.

Carlos A. Monje, Jr., of Louisiana, to be an Assistant Secretary of Transportation.

This is not going to be an announcement about U.S. ground troops.

We're not looking at sending in 100,000 American troops.

We're going to have to develop a moderate Sunni opposition that can control territory and that we can work with.

ISIL poses a broader threat because of its territorial ambitions in Iraq and Syria.

I'm confident that I have the authorization that I need to protect the American people.

The dam remains under the control of the Iraqi Security Forces, with assistance from Sunni tribes.

The notion that the United States should be putting boots on the ground, I think would be a profound mistake.

I'm preparing the country to make sure that we deal with a threat from ISIL.

I want the American people to understand the nature of the threat and how we're going to deal with it.

Keeping the American people safe is my highest priority.

America is the only indispensable nation.

There will be no boots on the ground. There will not be a ground combat role for forces, U.S. forces, in Iraq or potentially Syria.

We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL the same way we have gone after al-Qaeda, in the same way that we have gone after the al-Qaeda affiliate in Somalia. You can't contain an organization that is running roughshod to that…

Turkey obviously serves an extraordinarily important role in the alliance.