Elaine Chao

There should be an immediate moratorium on federal regulations that endanger jobs.

Capital available for individuals to start and expand businesses would increase with regulatory and strategic tax reforms, like reducing marginal rates, repealing the alternative minimum tax, and making the U.S. the most welcoming place for employers to relocate and create jobs.

Activists have every right to espouse their views of utopia.

We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers.

It has long been said the only things in life that are certain are death and taxes. Automatic enrollment for insurance of 401k loans would add an additional certainty. Fewer Americans would suffer the unnecessary loss of retirement savings due to unanticipated and untimely misfortune in an already stressful time of need.

While conventional wisdom has traditionally sided against borrowing from retirement savings, sentiment has shifted toward borrowing from one's own assets with the realization that other forms of credit come at a much higher cost and often are not even available to borrowers with limited means and urgent needs.

Taxpayers should demand that their states honestly assess public pension plans, accurately measure the assets and liabilities, and take steps to provide fair benefits to public employees that limit taxpayers' liability.

Where public pensions are concerned, many jurisdictions are running out of road.

Most private sector workers can only dream of getting the generous lifetime pension and health benefits typical of government service.

We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country.

Those memories of living in a developing nation are part of who I am today and give me a profound understanding of the challenges of economic development - an understanding which will make my tenure as Peace Corps director, I hope, a very special one.

We are a Republic with different branches of government, and so the Senate and the House are going to be full partners in working with the White House.