It's among many ammendments in an energy bill that oddly I can't find a lot of online info about, but there's plenty of news about it on CNN.
You can see many of the ammendments
here. However, specificly of interest...
Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) was pleased. He won approval of his "NOPEC" amendment, which would allow the Justice Department to sue in American courts the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries for alleged price-fixing.
Apparently, this passed in both the House and the Senate by enough of a margin that it could overcome a veto. But my question is this... WFT?
How the hell can the US try foreign organizations for not following US standards of free trade on foreign soil?
