... won't kick in until 2010, analysts say. "We are in some very hard and severe economic times," Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said in an interview Thursday. "The president and I are both not happy." Still, Solis said it was too early to ...

... announced his selections of Republican Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois for transportation secretary, California Rep. Hilda Solis for labor secretary, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk for U.S. trade representative and venture capitalist Karen Mills ...

... is a freshman Republican from Florida. Apart from Biden, at least two lawmakers won't be there for long. Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., was nominated as secretary of labor in the Obama administration, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is ...

... R-Mo.; William Lacy Clay, D-Mo.; William Delahunt and Stephen Lynch, both Massachusetts Democrats; and Hilda Solis, D-Calif. The purpose of the visit was to foster trade and improve relations with Cuba. Despite the disagreement ...

... Republicans in Congress and the president want to do something on this issue, we could do it fairly rapidly." Rep. Hilda Solis, a California Democrat of Mexican and Nicaraguan descent, accused the Bush administration of backing away from earlier ...