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The U.S. should increase pressure on OPEC and non-OPEC countries,which are failing to meet production forecasts, to open access toIOCs while authorizing oil production in ANWR, other promisingArctic areas, and the lower 48 states to expand domestic energyproduction. Rising oil consumption within key oil-producing statesleaves less oil for export, posing a significant constraint onfuture supply.
Bg1920es: U.S.-Latin America Ties Need Commitment and Strategy
The Senate's immigration plan does not provide long-term securitysolutions that are credible, practical, and affordable.
Despite the need to help stabilize the Middle East and recover fromrecent natural disasters, the United States should not reducesupport for Plan Colombia at this time. Colombia is an importantSouth American trade partner and democratic linchpin, andcontinuing this partnership will sustain stable markets for U.S.businesses and reduce the regional instability caused bylawlessness and narcoterrorism.
Over the past two years, the United Nations has published an astonishing number of documents on how to reform itself. Its many reports are a welcome acknowledgment of the serious flaws and problems that plague the United Nations, and they offer many useful assessments of its weaknesses as well as recommendations to remedy those weaknesses. Sadly, however, little is being done to implement these recommendations.