What was once a fringe idea - finding a way to use the record levels of overseas capital to finance new projects in the United States - is now mainstream. The support is there; we just have to work out the details.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

If we want to protect our status as (the best) place in the United States to be educated, to work and to enjoy life, there are some things we need to get serious about. Infrastructure challenges are way up there. We can't continue to live off the past in terms of upgrading this great state.

The problem is that remittances [from the United States] have made Salvadorans comfortable, and they don't want to work cutting cane.

The United States faces structural employment problems because of the long-term effects of globalization and technology. This was only exacerbated by the Great Recession.

It is time, as a matter of pride, as well as a matter of national security, for the United States of America to lead the world in the energy revolution, and not lag behind Japan or Germany