CHARLES BOUSTANY

If employed by employee stock ownership plan companies, working Americans can spend less time worrying about job security and retirement savings and enjoy a clearer path to prosperity.

As a physician, I treated hundreds of patients who needed long-term care, including ones with Alzheimer's.

Health reform should be open and transparent.

The TPP supports economic growth and job creation in America while expanding access for American goods and services in the Asia-Pacific region.

It is an honor to join my former colleague in Congress, Jim McCrery, and the very talented team at Capitol Counsel.

The United States cannot achieve significant economic growth without expanding exports.

The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.

Opening markets abroad through trade agreements is especially important for American small businesses and manufacturers to enhance growth and job creation.

Washington Democrats see the IRS' overextended resources and automatically think the answer is to take and spend more of your tax dollars. I disagree.

This federal welfare system is large, fragmented, and growing in cost. This system may have started out with good intentions, but it has become a confusing maze of programs that are overlapping, duplicative, poorly coordinated and difficult to administer.

The incredible resiliency and spirit of the people of Louisiana is inspiring, to say the least.

America's small businesses and manufacturers are innovators ready to usher in a new wave of growth and opportunity if given access to foreign markets.

American workers need a common-sense plan to make small businesses and entrepreneurs competitive again - not simply more government spending.

Replacing your family's current health care with government-run health care is not the answer. In fact, it'll make health care much more expensive.

Having access to affordable, available health care is not a Republican or Democrat issue.

I first learned of the value of employee stock ownership plans while representing Louisiana's 3rd congressional district, home of employee-owned Acadian Ambulance.

Leaders need to compromise, negotiate with members of both parties and ideologies, and reform health care the right way - by developing a strong plan that encompasses the needs of all Americans.

Just like American families, government agencies need to start doing more with less, and the Internal Revenue Service is no exception.

Working together in a bipartisan way, we can truly lower the cost of health care while improving quality for the American people.

Too often, patients without a primary doctor go to expensive hospital emergency rooms for nonurgent care.

Having more customers means nothing if America's small businesses cannot obtain the required capital to support their exports in the competitive international markets.

The robust benefits of employee stock ownership plans are hard to beat.

Trade plays an important role in empowering our nation, growing its economy, creating domestic jobs, and enhancing American competitiveness in the global chain of commerce.

It is my responsibility to ensure the Internal Revenue Service respects the Constitutional rights of all Americans while enforcing the nation's laws.

The American people deserve their government to be open and accountable.