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<title><![CDATA[Phil Kerpen - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/20571.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Phil Kerpen]]></description><category domain="20571">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Biden Blunders Made Drug Price Controls Even Worse]]></title>
							<link>https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4609653/biden-blunders-drug-price-controls/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Biden's Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services expanded its scope by ignoring some of the statute's clear lines.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Take Aim at Foreign Freeloading on Prescription Drugs]]></title>
							<link>https://townhall.com/columnists/philkerpen/2025/03/10/trump-should-take-aim-at-foreign-freeloading-on-prescription-drugs-n2653378</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump has a golden opportunity to stick it to the international freeloaders who've been riding America's coattails on medical innovation for far too long.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Bob Menendez's Friends Helped Him Steer Clear of Jail]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2017/11/16/how-bob-menendezs-friends-helped-him-steer-clear-of-jail/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA['&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Gifts to cultivate friendship are not bribes,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' Abbe Lowell said in his closing in defense of Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' and enough jurors agreed to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' result in a hung jury and a mistrial.The Biz Markie defense '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' he'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s just a friend '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' worked. Lowell was...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump Should End Obama's Bailout of Congress's Health Care]]></title>
							<link>http://thefederalist.com/2017/08/01/trump-end-obamas-bailout-congresss-health-care/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Aug 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The usual liberal media suspects and Obamacare defenders reacted by flaunting their ignorance (real or feigned'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'I can never tell) of any such bailout existing. But the bailout at taxpayer expense for members of Congress is very real, worth about $12,000 per year to senators and House...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dirty Politics Clog Keystone XL Pipeline]]></title>
							<link>http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/25/keystone-pipeline-energy-fuel-oil-obama-column/8159277/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 26 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The decision to yet again delay the final permit for the popular Keystone XL pipeline was made not in the White House or at the State Department, but in a posh private residence in the Sea Cliff neighborhood in northwestern San Francisco. It was there on February 19 that former vice...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1 Year After Midterm Rout, Obama Still Not Listening]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/281761/one-year-later-obama-still-isn-t-listening-phil-kerpen</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of the largest landslide elections in the history of the United States took place one year ago today. Free-market Republicans, riding a wave of public anger at bailouts, stimulus, and big-government programs, swept into power, capturing 63 seats and control of the U.S. House of...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Tea Parties Bash Washington Irresponsibility]]></title>
							<link>http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2010/04/15/phil-kerpen-tea-party-tax-day-movement-november-democrats-obama/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Phil Kerpen</author>
							<description><![CDATA[April 15 is not usually a happy day. It's the day our federal and state tax bills come due and a reminder of how much we already pay in taxes, even before the bill for Congress's reckless spending spree comes due. But last year something changed. The Tea Parties made April 15, for me,...]]></description>
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