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(1) the worldwide interests, goals, and objec-
tives of the United States that are vital to the na-
tional energy security of the United States; 
(2) the foreign policy, worldwide commitments, 
and national defense capabilities of the United 
States necessary— 
(A) to deter political manipulation of world 
energy resources; and 
(B) to implement the national energy secu-
rity strategy of the United States; 
(3) the proposed short-term and long-term uses 
of the political, economic, military, and other au-
thorities of the United States— 
(A) to protect or promote energy security; 
and 
(B) to achieve the goals and objectives de-
scribed in paragraph (1); 
(4) the adequacy of the capabilities of the 
United States to protect the national energy security 
of the United States, including an evaluation of the 
balance among the capabilities of all elements of the 
national authority of the United States to support 
the implementation of the national energy security 
strategy; and 
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(5) such other information as the President de-
termines to be necessary to inform Congress on mat-
ters relating to the national energy security of the 
United States. 
(c) CLASSIFIED AND UNCLASSIFIED FORM.—Each 
national energy security strategy report shall be submitted 
to Congress in— 
(1) a classified form; and 
(2) an unclassified form. 
SEC. 709. APPROPRIATE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES 
DEFINED. 
In this title, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional 
committees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of 
the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives. 
SEC. 710. NO OIL PRODUCING AND EXPORTING CARTELS 
ACT OF 2007. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This section may be cited as the 
‘‘No Oil Producing and Exporting Cartels Act of 2007’’ 
or ‘‘NOPEC’’. 
(b) SHERMAN ACT.—The Sherman Act (15 U.S.C. 
1 et seq.) is amended by adding after section 7 the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘SEC. 7A. OIL PRODUCING CARTELS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—It shall be illegal and a violation 
of this Act for any foreign state, or any instrumentality 
or agent of any foreign state, to act collectively or in com-
bination with any other foreign state, any instrumentality 
or agent of any other foreign state, or any other person, 
whether by cartel or any other association or form of co-
operation or joint action— 
‘‘(1) to limit the production or distribution of 
oil, natural gas, or any other petroleum product; 
‘‘(2) to set or maintain the price of oil, natural 
gas, or any petroleum product; or 
‘‘(3) to otherwise take any action in restraint of 
trade for oil, natural gas, or any petroleum product; 
when such action, combination, or collective action has a 
direct, substantial, and reasonably foreseeable effect on 
the market, supply, price, or distribution of oil, natural 
gas, or other petroleum product in the United States. 
‘‘(b) SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY.—A foreign state en-
gaged in conduct in violation of subsection (a) shall not 
be immune under the doctrine of sovereign immunity from 
the jurisdiction or judgments of the courts of the United 
States in any action brought to enforce this section. 
‘‘(c) INAPPLICABILITY
OF ACT
OF STATE DOC-
TRINE.—No court of the United States shall decline, 
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