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If this weren't an election years this would be funny. We must look so stupid to the rest of the world. I can see the OPEC meetings now. Those stupid American politicians. They think they can tell us what to do with our oil when they sit on theirs and deplete the rest of the world supply.
This is so embarrassing!
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation on Tuesday allowing the Justice Department to sue OPEC members for limiting oil supplies and working together to set crude prices, but the White House threatened to veto the measure.
The bill would subject OPEC oil producers, including Saudi Arabia, Iran and Venezuela, to the same antitrust laws that U.S. companies must follow.
The measure passed in a 324-84 vote, a big enough margin to override a presidential veto.
House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices - Yahoo! News (broken link)