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Elaine Chao

Today (2005) Elaine Chao is the US Secretary of Labor. She is a former president and chief executive officer of United Way of America. Before that, she was director of the Peace Corps, where she worked to establish the Peace Corps programs in the formerly socialist countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and in the former republics of the Soviet Union. From August of 1996 until she joined the Department of Labor, Chao had been a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.Elaine Chao Today (2005) Elaine Chao is the US Secretary of Labor. She is a former president and chief executive officer of United Way of America. Before that, she was director of the Peace Corps, where she worked to establish the Peace Corps programs in the formerly socialist countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and in the former republics of the Soviet Union. From August of 1996 until she joined the Department of Labor, Chao had been a Distinguished Fellow at the Heritage Foundation.

Chao is a onetime deputy transportation secretary, and she is married to Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, completing the usual conservative movement/Republican party nexus.

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David Moberg
In These Times
February 18, 2001

Ciao Chavez, Hello Chao

Chao held a variety of positions under Reagan and in the first Bush administration, including chairwoman of the Federal Maritime Commission, deputy secretary of transportation and director of the Peace Corps, before becoming president of the United Way in 1992. The wife of Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, a leading opponent of campaign finance reform, Chao has been a fellow at the conservative Heritage Institute since 1996.

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The New Republic
April 22, 2001

Kentucky Feeding Trough

"Time To Come Clean"

Has the Heritage Foundation, using Elaine Chao and her husband - Republican Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky - sold out to the People's Republic of China?

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