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" The OPPA route is nothing new. It follows the decades-old liberal agenda on trade, health care, global warming, and mass unionization. That agenda has never brought prosperity to workers. "
Elaine Chao
New
Trade
Nothing
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" I will carry with me always the deep sense of what it feels like to be an outsider and how tough it was, how hard it was to adapt to this country. "
Elaine Chao
Adapt
Country
Tough
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
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Death
Time
" 401k savings accounts have become so important in the landscape of retirement planning that their security and expansion became a top priority in formulating and implementing the Pension Protection Act of 2006 that was enacted during my tenure as the U.S. Secretary of Labor. "
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Retirement
" To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector. "
Elaine Chao
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Understanding
Government
" Outside of Washington, D.C., most Americans aren't concerned with doing things 'big.' They're looking for less government spending, lower taxes, and good jobs. "
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Good
Government
" People can voice their different points of view. We are also a country where there will be criticism. "
Elaine Chao
Voice
View
People
" The work of these women doesn't end when they return home from overseas, as one goal of the Peace Corps' mission is to help promote a better understanding of other cultures here in the United States. "
Elaine Chao
Work
Help
Home
" News-free existence is not a serious proposal, but it is worth noting that while today's 24/7 media environment is wonderful in many ways, it can also be like drinking out of a fire hose and intensify a downward reinforcing cycle of despair. "
Elaine Chao
Environment
Fire
Serious
" Progress is being made, but a lot of women are realizing it is not what they envisioned. "
Elaine Chao
Women
Being
Made
" Typically, after moving backwards, the economy takes even more steps forward. "
Elaine Chao
Moving
Economy
Forward
" We have a lot of employers who are looking for skilled workers and not being able to find them. And we have workers who lack the requisite skills to access these good-paying jobs in high growth industries. "
Elaine Chao
Growth
Who
Skills
" We need fair and free trade. "
Elaine Chao
Free Trade
Trade
Fair
" When Peace Corps was first proposed, some in Congress assumed that only men would be volunteers. "
Elaine Chao
Only
First
Congress
" It's not coincidental that America's vigorous recovery in the early 1980s was led by a president who worked hard to unshackle growth in the private sector. "
Elaine Chao
America
Early
Growth
" The majority of the new jobs being created require higher skills, more education. "
Elaine Chao
New
Skills
Higher
" There are many reasons to worry; the evening news is full of them. "
Elaine Chao
Reasons
Worry
Evening
" 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. "
Elaine Chao
Measure
Plans
Employees
" Around the time President Lyndon B. Johnson was declaring a War on Poverty in the 1960s, federal, state and local governments began accelerating a veritable War on the Private Sector. "
Elaine Chao
War
Local
Poverty
" For any trade deal to move forward, there has to be agreement. "
Elaine Chao
Deal
Move
Forward
" We need long-term tax reform that promotes private sector job creation. And legislated mandates that kill jobs by raising the cost of payrolls need to be eliminated. "
Elaine Chao
Reform
Cost
Tax
" While there have been news reports of recent college graduates living with their parents because they have been unable to find a job paying a salary sufficient to move out, their near and long-term career prospects remain far brighter than for those without a college degree. "
Elaine Chao
Job
Career
Living
" Washington policymakers have to understand the adverse implications of their actions on job creation, and they must reorder some of their priorities. "
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Job
Priorities
Understand
" I know that some people, when they are growing up and they - as a person of color in a majority community - that they may feel as if they are left out, or they feel a bit strange. "
Elaine Chao
Community
Growing Up
People
" When there's change, people are always anxious. "
Elaine Chao
Change
People
Always
" Our private-sector work force is the most industrious, innovative, productive, and ambitious in the world. "
Elaine Chao
Most
Productive
Work
" We're a robust democracy here. That's the wonderful thing about this country. "
Elaine Chao
Wonderful
Here
Country
" The expenses of complying with Washington's torrent of mandates and regulatory overreach are costing American workers jobs and income growth. "
Elaine Chao
Washington
Growth
American
" We want to make sure that workers know their rights and that employers know their obligations. That is the best way to protect workers. "
Elaine Chao
Rights
Way
Want
" In normal times, laid-off workers are unemployed an average of eight weeks. "
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Unemployed
Average
Workers
" As we celebrate Women's History Month this March, it's important to remember the key role women have played in promoting a better understanding and relationships between our country and the rest of the world. "
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Celebrate
History
Rest