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<title><![CDATA[Diana Furchtgott-Roth - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/19305.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Diana Furchtgott-Roth]]></description><category domain="19305">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Reining In EPA Overreach]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/west-virginia-v-epa-ruling-analysis</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the last day of its term, the Supreme Court stops the Environmental Protection Agency from making policy without express congressional authorization.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Biden Admin Should Reverse Anti-Energy Policies]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/fight-inflation-with-energy</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[If President Biden wants to tackle higher prices, he should forget about more tax hikes and instead reverse his policies on domestic oil and natural gas production.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[CBO Gets ObamaCare Reform Estimates Wrong - Again]]></title>
							<link>http://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/cbo-gets-obamacare-reform-estimates-wrong-again/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Monday the Congressional Budget Office released its cost estimate of the Republican Senate Better Care Reconciliation Act. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' CBO calculated that the proposed bill would reduce the deficit by $321 billion over the next decade. That is welcome news.Less welcome, however, was CBO's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[More Lies About Puzder]]></title>
							<link>https://economics21.org/html/more-lies-about-puzder-2205.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The torrent of lies about Andy Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants and President Trump's nominee for Labor Department Secretary, never seems to end. '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Can Solve Illinois' Pension Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-illinois-pensions-bankruptcy-congress-retirement-perspec-0429-jm-20160427-story.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Most people don't care whether pensions are underfunded. After all, retirement is far in the future. But if their income taxes are going to go up because state pensions are underfunded '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' that's another story.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' One advantage Illinois has is that the state has a low individual income...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Millennials Can't Afford to Ignore Washington]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/05/30/millennials_cant_afford_to_ignore_washington_126735.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The following is adapted from Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Young (Encounter Books: May 12, 2015).
Tens of millions of Americans are between the ages of 18 and 30. These so-called millennials are, or soon will be, entering the workforce. Their situation is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dear Class of 2015, You're in Big Trouble]]></title>
							<link>https://www.google.com/search?q=Dear+Class+of+2015%2C+You%E2%80%99re+in+Big+Trouble&amp;oq=Dear+Class+of+2015%2C+You%E2%80%99re+in+Big+Trouble&amp;aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60.63j0j7&amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;es_sm=122&amp;ie=UTF-8</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Over the next few weeks 3.5 million of you will graduate and try to find jobs. We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re sorry to tell you that achieving success will be more difficult than it was for your parents or grandparents. Not because you'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'re less intelligent, or lazier or less deserving of realizing the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Easy Money Will End in Tears, Allan Meltzer Says]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2013/03/04/easy_money_will_end_in_tears_117263.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[PITTSBURGH (MarketWatch) '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' It was a cloudy day in Pittsburgh, but light streamed through the tall windows of Professor Allan Meltzer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s condominium overlooking Carnegie Mellon University, where he has taught economics for 56 years.
At 85, Meltzer'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s mind is ever-brilliant,...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Three Ways Congress Can Boost Growth]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2013/01/08/3_ways_congress_can_boost_growth_100077.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The new tax law passed on January 1, before the 112th Congress adjourned, will slow American economic growth because it raised income taxes on most taxpayers.Newspaper headlines said that couples with taxable income of $450,000 ($400,000 for singles) would pay higher taxes on salaries...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Budget Deal Needs Spending Cuts]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/fiscal-cliff-deal-needs-spending-cuts/article/2515052#.UL8eEo5MbOE</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON -- Finally, a plan to avoid the "fiscal cliff" that includes spending cuts.On Monday, Republican House Speaker John Boehner proposed cutting $900 billion in entitlement spending and $300 billion in discretionary spending over the next decade. Boehner also suggested $800...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[D.C. Must Not Kill Energy Revolution]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/washington-must-not-kill-americas-energy-revolution/article/2513359#.UKN5oY5MbOE</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The International Energy Agency has announced that America will displace Saudi Arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020. So it's time to take a look at federal regulations that could stand in the way.America has reserves to be practically self-sufficient, according to the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[California Gas Prices Are a Warning]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/california-gas-prices-are-a-warning/article/2510245#.UHVO8K7rSSo</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[California's record gasoline prices and long service station lines are a warning to all of us about what green energy can do to our pocketbooks.On Monday, California gasoline cost $4.67 per gallon, compared with the $3.81 U.S. average. California's environmental standards are the most...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The 4% Growth Project]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2012/04/12/the_4_growth_project_99614.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How could the United States double economic growth from its recent rate of 2% to 4%? That's the goal of the George W. Bush Institute's 4% Growth Project, launched'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' at a conference in New York on Tuesday.Named for former President George W. Bush, the Institute has tapped Amity Shlaes, a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The State &amp; Local Pension Crisis]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2012/02/16/the_state_and_local_pension_crisis_99520.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON-President Obama's new budget, with its trillion dollar deficit and interest payments of $5.6 trillion on the debt over the next decade, is only part of America's unfunded liability.The state and local pension crisis is the subject of a new report by the Republican staff of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[EPA Tries to Pull a Fast One]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/12/22/epa_tries_to_pull_a_fast_one_99433.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[You're a savvy political appointee, and you're bringing out the Mercury and Air Toxic Standards for Power Plants rule that will raise electricity rates all over the country, particularly in battleground states of Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Florida, and Michigan. What can you do to get the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Economic Disappointment of &quot;Generation O&quot;]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/10/20/the_economic_travails_of_generation_o_99319.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Yet another resum'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('©').';' arrived in my email box this week, from a young man who graduated with a BA in economics and a minor in math last May, and has yet to find a job. He's a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania, with summer job experience as an engineering technician at...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[DOE Hasn't Learned Its Lesson]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/10/06/the_doe_hasnt_learned_its_solyndra_lessons_99294.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Some might think the Energy Department learned from the September Solyndra bankruptcy, in which taxpayers have a $528 million exposure. Surely September would have been a good time to halt the Energy Department's loan guarantee program and understand why this program has become the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Is ObamaCare Costing U.S. Jobs?]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/09/15/slow_employment_growth_look_to_obamacare_99255.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON- You can't open a newspaper or turn on the TV these days without tax talk. Should the reduction in worker payroll taxes be continued in 2012? Should it be extended to employers? Are Americans who earn over $200,000 annually entitled to the full value of their itemized...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The NLRB's &quot;Gift&quot; of Joblessness]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/09/01/the_nlrbs_gift_of_job_loss_99228.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON-It's almost Labor Day. Unemployment hovers above 9 percent. President Obama plans to address Congress next week, and this time he's promising some real ideas about how to increase employment.At the same time, the National Labor Relations Board is making sure that unemployment...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Rising Gas Prices &amp; the Declining Dollar]]></title>
							<link>http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Diana_Furchtgott-Roth_F61F0BA1-4167-4FD8-9962-3003417E4B89.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Gas prices are rising due to the declining value of the dollar and to  expectations of future supply. We could fix both of these, if we wanted  to.Oil and gasoline prices are set in world markets. If the value of the  dollar falls, prices rise. The dollar is weakened by excessive...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[With Unions, Follow the Money]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/02/24/with_unions_follow_the_money_98886.html#</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Missing in action, walking off the job. That's the new style for Democratic state legislators, first in Wisconsin, then in Indiana. They have fled to Illinois, rather than provide the quorum necessary for votes on legislation sponsored by Republican majorities to curtail...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Behind the Unemployment Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/02/behind-numbers-people-leaving-workforce-means-unemployment-down</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Friday's employment report from the Labor  Department brought bad news for economists as well as for America.  Economists thought that the January unemployment rate would rise from  9.4 percent to 9.5 percent--it fell to 9 percent. They thought that the  economy would create 148,000 jobs...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Budget Illogic at the CBO]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2011/01/13/extreme_budget_illogic_at_the_cbo_98828.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--Hold onto your budget scorecards. With the House of Representatives likely to vote next week on H.R. 2, Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act, the Congressional Budget Office has announced that eliminating this 2010 Democratic entitlement program for 32 million...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Where Unions Are, We Are Not]]></title>
							<link>http://www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/2010/12/23/where_unions_are_americans_arent_98809.html#</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON--The American people have been voting with their feet, the Census Bureau announced on Tuesday, leaving states with heavy union influence and choosing to live in "right-to-work" states with higher job growth where they cannot be forced to join a union as a condition of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Low-Skill Workers Hurt by Health Law]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2010/12/diana-furchtgott-roth-obamacare-will-hurt-low-skill-workers</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[I  walked into my local CVS drugstore at 5550 Connecticut Avenue in  Washington last week to pick up some photos. Not a cashier in sight. The  row of cash registers had suddenly vanished, replaced by self-scanning  checkout machines.   Come 2014, the health care law will make it  more...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keep Eye on Energy, Commerce Chairs]]></title>
							<link>http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2010/12/diana-furchtgott-roth-grassroots-closely-eye-house-energy-and-commerce-ch</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Next  month the Republicans will hold an additional 63 seats in the House of  Representatives because of the support of different grass-roots groups,  who came together to drum up votes in support of lower spending, tax  cuts and repeal of Obamacare.On Dec. 7, the  Republican Steering...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Public Unions Shouldn't Fund Elections]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Stop-campaign-funds-from-public-sector-unions-1457421-106721093.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[With  the close of the 2010 election campaign, the American Federation of  State, County and Municipal Employees reached a new spending record,  pouring $87 million into this congressional election.AFSCME's $87 million is greater than the campaign spending by the  U.S. Chamber of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Uncertainty Plagues Bad Jobs Numbers]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Uncertainty-plagues-bad-jobs-numbers-1154720-104594104.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Underscoring the failure of the almost $1 trillion in stimulus spending  are the loss of 95,000 jobs and the 9.6 percent unemployment rate (15.4  percent for unskilled adults). It should be no surprise that employers  aren't hiring.Congress has left town and employers don't even know...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Counters Obama's Big Gov Strategy]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/GOP_s-agenda-counters-Obama_s-big-spending-anti-growth-strategy-975873-103658074.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 25 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Less than a month after House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio,  called on President Obama to fire his economic team, the White House  announced that National Economic Council Director Larry Summers would be  leaving, following the departures of budget director Peter Orszag and ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bring Us Your Young &amp; Hard-Working]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Bring-us-your-young_-hard-working-immigrants-880770-103073714.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Diana Furchtgott-Roth</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Harvard  sophomore Eric Balderas, valedictorian of his high school class in San  Antonio and would-be cancer researcher, was almost deported on the way  to Harvard in June to start a summer job. His parents brought him to the  United States illegally from Mexico at the age of 4 and he...]]></description>
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