Mario Solis-Marich

Progressive talk radio show host

The choice of Trasvina as Assistant HUD Secretary is sure to be seen as a victory by both the progressive and Latino communities.

Diane Tucker

Writer/producer/director living in Washington DC

The Chinese banking system has been through so much stress during the last few decades, they are in a much better position than the U.S. to deal with the global financial crisis, says Joshua Cooper Ramo.

Robert Kuttner

Co-founder and co-editor, 'The American Prospect'

From: Barack Obama To: Rahm Emanuel
Dear Rahm, I'm concerned that I'm getting only one viewpoint on how to solve the banking crisis.

Cristina Page

Author, 'How the Pro-Choice Movement Saved America'

The Catholic Church may refer to pro-choice politicians as extremists but the majority of Catholic congregants agree with pro-choice politicians like Sebelius on reproductive issues.

Richard Z. Chesnoff

Veteran of more than 40 years of global news work

Attention all those folks who voted for Obama not only because he promised America vital change, but because he swore to sustain foreign policy suppor...

David Goldstein

Founder, HorsesAss.org

Locke isn't exactly a lot of folks' favorite governor, though apart from his conventional approach to trade issues it's hard to argue that he's a bad choice for Commerce.

Will Durst

Political comic, former radio talk show host, syndicated columnist, author, motivational speaker

Two Secretary of Commerce nominees have slunk away like hyenas chastised from a zebra carcass by a pride of dusty lionesses.

Jason Pollock

Filmmaker and Activist, Director of The Youngest Candidate, www.JasonPollock.TV

I would like to take a moment to reflect on what Shepard Fairey has done to our world in the last year.

Derek Shearer

Professor of Diplomacy at Occidental College and former US ambassador

The Commerce Department, where I once worked as Deputy Under Secretary, is a hodge podge of agencies with no central purpose.

Jerry and Joe Long

Comedians, political satirists etc.

Timothy Geithner trusts the people who write the fine print on your credit card statement. If Don Knotts was alive, he'd be nervous.

Drew Westen

Professor, Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University

For years, Democrats have led Republicans in the polls on most of the issues tracked by pollsters except two: national defense and commerce. This administration has an historic chance of changing that.

Lee Stranahan

Filmmaker, Writer, Photographer

I will be "the People's Commerce Secretary," since I have no formal education and I'm not clear on what the Commerce Secretary does.

Art Levine

Contributing Editor, The Washington Monthly

Union activists hope that when Hilda Solis is confirmed as Labor Secretary, she'll take some cues from the innovative, tough-minded prosecution in Los Angeles.

Van Jones

President, RebuildtheDream.com; Author of NY Times bestseller, 'The Green-Collar Economy'

Rep. Solis has been forced to wait and watch while a few Republican Senators try to make political hay of her husband's small business tax woes.

Steve Rosenthal

President of the Organizing Group, a DC consulting firm, former political director of the AFL-CIO, and founder of America Coming Together and The Atlas Project.

Hilda Solis will work tirelessly to help strengthen one of America's greatest assets, its labor force, and her nomination deserves to move forward and be confirmed quickly. America needs to get to work.

David Sirota

Newspaper columnist, radio host (AM760), bestselling author

Obama's national security team includes not a single opponent of the Iraq War. It is chock full of Bush administration political appointees who are -- somehow -- being held over.