Opponent: West DeMoines Valley BD | Judge: Gabe Murillo
1AC Round 2 Greenhill 1AC 1NC State PIC Nietzche K Brazil SOI DA Biod Loss Good and Warming Good (Ice Age and s02 screw) on case Block CP Environment Advantage
Econ Advantage Brazil DA
Greenhill
2
Opponent: Chatahoochee AS | Judge: Talon Powers
1NC Debt Ceiling T-QPQ Give Mexico Renewables CP (with dodd frank and mex manu net benefits) 2AC Relations Addon 2NC CP (dodd frank net benefit only) Case 1NR Politics 2NR CP Case Politics
Greenhill
5
Opponent: Coppell BJ | Judge: Toby Whisenhunt
1AC Same as Round 2 Greenhill 1NC Debt CeilingCR w Cyber Security Impact Consult Canada CP Nanotech to clean oil spills CP T - You are more than economic Heg Bad on case Renewables tradeoff on case
Block Nano CP Renewables Tradeoff Heg bad Case T
1AR Extended link turn on politics when all they had conceded was no link uniqueness
2NR Extra - T Heg Bad Renewables Tradeoff Case
St Marks
1
Opponent: Highland Park TX TI | Judge: Paul Johnson
1AC Same as Round 1 1NC Methane Burst DA CIR Economic Imperialism K Legal Code CP Block All but K 2NR CP
St Marks
4
Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Ana Nikolic
1AC Same as Round 1 1NC Methane Burst DA CIR Economic Imperialism K Legal Code CP Block All but K 2NR CP
St Marks
5
Opponent: Stratford OS | Judge: Sara Sanchez
1AC Same as round 1 1NC CIR Condition CP (plan off of Mexico resolving to end human rights abuses) Neolib Block Neolib Case 2NR Neolib Case 2AR Conditionality bad
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1AC Round 1 St Marks
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Highland Park TX TI | Judge: Paul Johnson
1AC – St Marks
Plan
Plan: The United States federal government should pass House Resolution 1613.
China
Advantage 1 is China
====China is increasing their reliance on Middle East oil – plan checks Chinese oil expansion ==== González, 12 – UCB, columnist for the WSJ ("Expanded Oil Drilling Helps U.S.Wean Itself From Mideast", June 27th, 2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304441404577480952719124264.html)** HOUSTON—America will halve its reliance on Middle East oil by the end of AND Russia’s economy is "a colossal challenge," said economy minister Andrei Belousov.
====China can’t develop any themselves – they have to import==== Cockerham, 13 – Columnist for McClatchy ("Iraqi oil: Once seen as U.S. boon, now it’s mostly China’s", 3/27/13, http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/03/27/187100/iraqi-oil-once-seen-as-us-boon.html~~23storylink=cpy)** WASHINGTON — Ten years after the United States invaded and occupied Iraq, the country’s AND -owned oil company PetroChina lacking the technological sophistication needed for deepwater production.
====Sino-U.S. competition growing now – import dependence in the Middle East makes Chinese power projection likely==== Kemp, 12 - John Kemp is a Reuters market analyst ("COLUMN-China’s growing strategic stake in the Middle East: Kemp", March 2nd 2012, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/02/column-china-middle-east-oil-idUSL5E8E229T20120302)** (Reuters) - China’s growing demand for imported oil, coupled with the development AND in the region is not an aberration but the start of a trend.
====That causes US-China war, middle east instability, and south china sea conflict ==== Lai, 07 - UCLA Center for Chinese Studies ("China’s Oil Diplomacy: Is It a Global Security Threat?", Vol. 28, No. 3, Third World Quarterly, pp. 519-537, published by Taylor 26 Francis, accessed via JSTOR) In recent years China’s demands for imported oil have increased rapidly. Many observers, AND sort out the facts from the allegations over China’s quest for energy security.
Middle East instability cause extinction
Steinbach, 02 (DC Iraq Coalition, 3/2/02 "Israeli Weapons of Mass Destruction: a Threat to Peace" Center for Research on Globalisation. http://wagingpeace.org/articles /0203/0331steinbachisraeli.htm-http://wagingpeace.org/articles /0203/0331steinbachisraeli.htm) Meanwhile, the existence of an arsenal of mass destruction in such an unstable region AND whatever reason- the deepening Middle East conflict could trigger a world conflagration."
So does South China Sea conflict
Wittner 11 (Lawrence S. Wittner, Emeritus Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany, Wittner is the author of eight books, the editor or co-editor of another four, and the author of over 250 published articles and book reviews. From 1984 to 1987, he edited Peace 26 Change, a journal of peace research., 11/28/2011, "Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?", www.huntingtonnews.net/14446) While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used. AND —destroying agriculture, creating worldwide famine, and generating chaos and destruction.
And US-China war
Straight Times 2k (Ching Cheong, Senior Writer at the Strait Times, "No one gains in a war over Taiwan," June 25th, Lexis) THE high-intensity scenario postulates a cross-strait war escalating into a full AND should that come to pass, we would see the destruction of civilization.
Natural Gas
Advantage 2 is Natural Gas
Mexico’s natural gas demand is skyrocketing but PEMEX can’t produce any
Low natural gas prices key to the US steel industry
James, 12 (Steve, correspondent for Reuters in New York, "Analysis: Steelmakers eye gas to cut costs, drive exports," Reuters, March 16, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/16/us-steel-gas-idUSBRE82F12Y20120316) America’s steel industry, for decades a symbol of industrial decline, is betting on AND old symbol of American industrial power, a competitive edge in the 21st Century
Competitive steel industry is key to steel armor plating – ensures hard power
Adams, 13 (John, President of Guardian Six Consulting, LLC, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (Retired), former Deputy U.S. Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, "Remaking American Security: Supply Chain Vulnerabilities 26 National Security Risks Across the U.S. Defense Industrial Base, May, http://americanmanufacturing.org/files/RemakingAmericanSecurityMay2013.pdf-http://americanmanufacturing.org/files/RemakingAmericanSecurityMay2013.pdf) Steel armor plate is an important component for armored ground vehicles, including personnel carriers AND the sheer variety of steel plates needed for U.S. platforms.
Ross ’98 ~Douglas, Winter 1998/1999,– professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, Canada’s functional isolationism and the future of weapons of mass destruction, International Journal, lexis~ Thus, an easily accessible tax base has long been available for spending much more AND community have any plausible hope of avoiding warfare involving nuclear or other WMD.
Russia expansionism causes nuclear war
Blank 9 (Dr. Stephen, Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March, "Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?," http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub908.pdf) Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia can then deter regional or intercontinental attacks AND perhaps make wars of aggression on their neighbors or their own people.172
"The risks are massive and the potential benefits are comparatively small." The plan is key to make that safe Melgar, 2012 (Lourdes, director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey, Summer 2012, "The Future of PEMEX," http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781) The challenge for PEMEX is to increase reserves and oil and gas production in areas AND The Mexican oil industry can no longer thrive on amendments to distorted schemes.
Oil spills threaten gulf sponges key to fight diseases – BP put them on the brink
Sanders 9 – Laura, Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from UCLA, Neuroscience Writer for Science News ("Sponge’s secret weapon revealed" Science News, 00368423, 3-14-09, v.175, iss.6) A chemical from an ocean-dwelling sponge can reprogram antibiotic-resistant bacteria to AND the bacterium, it’s not throwing up any red flags," Moeller said.
Antibiotic resistance causes extinction
Davies 08 – Julian, Fellow of the Royal Society, British microbiologist, professor emeritus, and Principal Investigator of the Davies Lab, at University of British Columbia ("Resistance redux; Infectious diseases, antibiotic resistance and the future of mankind", EMBO Rep. 2008 July; 9(Suppl 1): S18–S21. doi: 10.1038/embor.2008.69 PMCID: PMC3327549, Science and Society) For many years, antibiotic-resistant pathogens have been recognized as one of the AND our best efforts, continue to exact a toll on the human race.
Southeastern wetlands are key to aquatic biodiversity, the hydrologic cycle, watershed health, and prevent erosion and they’re on the brink now
EPA 13 – US Environmental Protection Agency ("Protecting Wetlands in Coastal Watersheds", Last updated on Wednesday, July 03, 2013, http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/cwt.cfm-http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/cwt.cfm) Coastal wetlands include saltwater and freshwater wetlands located within coastal watersheds — specifically USGS 8 AND of carbon due to their rapid growth rates and slow decomposition rates.6
Wetlands are key to the hydro-cycle – solves extinction
Ramsar Convention 96 ("Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Wetlands and Biodiversity, Executive Summary", http://www.ramsar.org/about/about_biodiversity.htm, ACC: 12.20.08, p. online) Wetlands - including (inter alia) rivers, lakes, marshes, estuaries, AND transition zones between aquatic ecosystems and terrestrial ecosystems such as forests and grasslands.
Soil erosion causes extinction
Ikerd 99 – Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at University of Missouri (John E., "Foundational Principles: Soils. Stewardship, and Sustainability," Sep 22, http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerd/papers/NCSOILS.html) A foundation is "the basis upon which something stands or is supported" ( AND water to drink, and food to eat. It’s just less obvious.
10/18/13
1AC Round 2 Greenhill
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Chatahoochee AS | Judge: Talon Powers 1AC v2 Plan The United States federal government should pass the Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement. Contention 1 is the Environment Scenario 1 is Bio-D Mexico’s oil company PEMEX has no tech or expertise to drill Johnson 12 - Tim Johnson, Maria Moors Cabot Prize, Winner and Stanford University, Knight Fellow, citing various oil experts, 3-04-12, McClatchy Newspapers, Mexico City, “Mexican plan for Gulf deepwater wells sparks new worries” http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/03/144004/mexican-plan-for-gulf-deepwater.html#.UdA9CvmwWuk Two years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, AND
and#34;The risks are massive and the potential benefits are comparatively small.and#34; Florida Straits ecosystems are on the brink—a spill would crush the coastline and Caribbean coral reefs – kills species Hoffman ’12 – environment and science writer for numerous publications (Karen, “Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Exploration Makes Strange Bedfellows”, Earth Island Journal, 3-15-2012, http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/cubas_gulf_of_mexico_oil_exploration_makes_strange_bedfellows/) Florida’s 800 miles of coast are far from as unspoiled as Cuba’s, but they AND , Cuba and Mexico to collaborate more on marine science and conservation issues.) The Gulf is a key ocean biodiversity hotspot Brenner 8 – Jorge Brenner, March 14th, 2008, and#34;Guarding the Gulf of Mexicoand#39;s valuable resourcesand#34; www.scidev.net/en/opinions/guarding-the-gulf-of-mexico-s-valuable-resources.html Rich in biodiversity and habitats The Gulf of Mexico is rich in biodiversity and unique AND in the North Atlantic that helps to regulate the climate of western Europe. Extinction Craig 3, Associate Prof Law, Indiana U School Law, 2003 (McGeorge Law Review, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Lexis) Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for conserving marine ecosystems also exist, just as they AND kill ourselves, and we will take most of the biosphere with us.
There’s an invisible threshold – resiliency doesn’t apply Craig 11 (Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida, 12/20/11 “Legal Remedies for Deep Marine Oil Spills and Long-Term Ecological Resilience: A Match Made in Hell” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1906839) What would happen instead if we incorporated full resilience theory into our laws? As AND actions do to the ecosystems that we both impact and depend upon.185 Scenario 2 is Warming Independently, the plan is key to clean tech Sarukhan 12 (Arturo Sarukhan is a distinguished affiliate in the Foreign Policyand Metropolitan Policy programs at Brookings. He focuses on hemispheric issues, Mexico-U.S. relations, immigration policy, new security threats, and the role of cities in the 21st Century. He is chairman of Global Solutions/A Podesta Company, a global strategic consulting and risk assessment firm. The grandson and son of conflict refugees in Mexico, he served as a career diplomat in the Mexican Foreign Service for 20 years and received the rank of career ambassador in 2006, February 2012, http://www.americanambassadors.org/publications/ambassadors-review/spring-2012/mexico-and-the-united-states-a-strategic-relationship)//moxley The fourth driver of our bilateral agenda is how we address energy security and energy AND in which both countries can come together in the development of clean fuel. Clean tech solves climate change Klarevas ’09 12/15/09, Louis Klarevas is a Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, “Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html By not addressing climate change more aggressively and creatively, AND , while simultaneously providing it with means of leverage that can be employed to keep potential foes in check.
Warming is the only existential risk Deibel ’07—Prof IR @ National War College (Terry, “Foreign Affairs AND States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet. There’s over a 95 consensus it’s human induced- best scientists are on our side Anderegg et al 10 – PhD Candidate @ Stanford in Biology William, “Expert credibility in climate change,” National Academy of Sciences, p. 12107-12109 Preliminary reviews of scientific literature and surveys of cli- mate scientists indicate striking agreement AND discussions in media, policy, and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change. Contention 2 is Wetlands
Southeastern wetlands are key to aquatic biodiversity, the hydrologic cycle, watershed health, and prevent erosion and they’re on the brink now EPA 13 – US Environmental Protection Agency (“Protecting Wetlands in Coastal Watersheds”, Last updated on Wednesday, July 03, 2013, http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/cwt.cfm) Coastal wetlands include saltwater and freshwater wetlands located within coastal watersheds — specifically USGS 8 AND of carbon due to their rapid growth rates and slow decomposition rates.6 Gulf oil spills devastate wetlands environments, destroy water quality and increase soil erosion EarthGauge 10 – a National Environmental Education Foundation Program (“Gulf Oil Spill Series: Impacts on Coastal Wetland Plants”, http://www.earthgauge.net/wp-content/EG_Gulf_WetlandPlants.pdf) IMPACTS OF OIL ON COASTAL WETLANDS Most research on the impacts of oil in wetlands AND higher water levels and excess flooding that may prevent plants from growing back. Wetlands are key to the hydro-cycle – the impact is extinction Ramsar Convention 96 (“Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Wetlands and Biodiversity, Executive Summary”, http://www.ramsar.org/about/about_biodiversity.htm, ACC: 12.20.08, p. online) Wetlands - including (inter alia) rivers, lakes, marshes, estuaries, AND transition zones between aquatic ecosystems and terrestrial ecosystems such as forests and grasslands. Soil erosion threatens all life on the planet Ikerd 99 – Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at University of Missouri (John E., “Foundational Principles: Soils. Stewardship, and Sustainability,” Sep 22, http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerd/papers/NCSOILS.html) A foundation is and#34;the basis upon which something stands or is supportedand#34; ( AND water to drink, and food to eat. It’s just less obvious. Contention 3 is Econ PEMEX is failing now despite reforms Pabst, 4/12 – Writer for the Financialist (Mark, “Saving Mexico’s Golden Goose,” The Financialist, 12 April 2013, http://www.thefinancialist.com/saving-mexicos-golden-goose-pemex-mexico-oil/) Even a quick look at the numbers suggests that Pemex, Mexico’s state oil monopoly AND could tax Pemex’s available expertise, making it difficult to recoup lost production.
New Gulf oil key to PEMEX sustainability Iliff, 12 (Laurence, “Pemex Makes Its First Big Oil Find in Deep Gulf”, The Wall Street Journal, 8-29-2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577619712736497598.html) Mexican state-owned oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has made its AND Mexican side of the Gulf, but only under shared-risk contracts.
But PEMEX can’t drill it given current capabilities Melgar, 12 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Lourdes, “The Future of PEMEX”, Americas Quarterly, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781) The challenge for PEMEX is to increase reserves and oil and gas production in areas AND
nor does it have the legal authority to force PEMEX to wait.
Reform is uniquely key to solve Samples and Vittor, 12 – Samples is an associate in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. Tim ¶ advises clients on international and domestic business transactions with a particular focus on ¶ mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure, energy, and Latin America. Vittor is a partner in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. His practice is focused on business law, including commercial and corporate transactions, public-private partnerships, infrastructure and other project development and finance transactions, securities, ¶ and cross-border transactions in the U.S. and Latin America (Tim and José Luis, “Energy Reform and the Future of Mexico’s Oil Industry: The Pemex Bidding Rounds and Integrated Service Contracts,” Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, 6-21-2012, http://tjogel.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Samples-Formatted_Final_June13.pdf) In recent years, Latin America has seen an uptick in interest as a ¶ AND oil industry was passed in November 2008 (the Energy ¶ Reforms).1
PEMEX is key to Mexican economy – failure collapses it Melgar, 8 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Lourdes, “The Future of PEMEX”, Americas Quarterly, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781)¶ The oil and gas industry is a different story. Since 2004, oil AND technically bankrupt, sharply curtailing the possibilities for growth and investment for innovation. Reform is key to the economy independently of the oil portfolio CRS, 10 – Not the CRS you’re thinking; DandB Country Risk Services, an international risk-assessment company that provides information to clients on the creditworthiness of cross-border investments (DandB Country Risk Services, “MEXICO,” October 2010, http://www.dnbcountryrisk.com/FreeSamples/samplefiles/SampleGlob21010.htm) After a strong rebound in Q2 2010, there are signs that Mexico’s economic growth AND sector, reform of PEMEX is key to longer-term fiscal sustainability.
Mexico collapse causes US collapse Wilson 11 - an Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Christopher, “Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico”, Wilson Center, November 2011, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Working20Together20Full20Document.pdf)//WL The Mexican and U.S. economies are tightly integrated, with goods, AND one ¶ another and experience economic growth and setbacks in a synchronized manner. That causes nuclear war Harris and Burrows 9 - *Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) , Jennifer, a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf)//BB Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is AND within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.
Mexican stability key to heg Kaplan ’12 – chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor (Robert D., With the Focus on Syria, Mexico Burns, Stratfor, 3-28-2012, http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/focus-syria-mexico-burns) While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in AND can continue to focus on serious moral questions in places that matter less. Hegemony prevents multiple nuclear conflicts Brooks et al 13 Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. “Donand#39;t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment”, Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51,http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107, GDI File A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND case would generate intensely competitive behavior, possibly including regional great power war).
Unilateralism is inevitable – multilat doesn’t cut it Bass 9 (James E Bass, Major, US Air Force, “Unilateral vs. Multilateral Engagement: A Scenario-Based Approach to Guiding America’s Future Foreign Policy,” Air Command and Staff College, Air University, p. 3-6, April 2009, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA539615) According to Stewart Patrick of the Center on International Cooperation, America’s preference for unilateral AND Bush administration’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in 2001.
9/22/13
1AC Round 3 Wake
Tournament: Wake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lakeland KL | Judge: Schoerke 1AC v2 Plan The United States federal government should pass the Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreement. Environment
Contention one is the environment Mexico’s oil company PEMEX has no tech or expertise to drill Johnson 12 - Tim Johnson, Maria Moors Cabot Prize, Winner and Stanford University, Knight Fellow, citing various oil experts, 3-04-12, McClatchy Newspapers, Mexico City, “Mexican plan for Gulf deepwater wells sparks new worries” http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/03/144004/mexican-plan-for-gulf-deepwater.html#.UdA9CvmwWuk Two years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, AND
and#34;The risks are massive and the potential benefits are comparatively small.and#34; Florida Straits ecosystems are on the brink—a spill would crush the coastline and Caribbean coral reefs – kills species Hoffman ’12 – environment and science writer for numerous publications (Karen, “Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Exploration Makes Strange Bedfellows”, Earth Island Journal, 3-15-2012, http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/cubas_gulf_of_mexico_oil_exploration_makes_strange_bedfellows/) Florida’s 800 miles of coast are far from as unspoiled as Cuba’s, but they AND , Cuba and Mexico to collaborate more on marine science and conservation issues.) Scenario 1 is Bio-D The Gulf is a key ocean biodiversity hotspot Brenner 8 – Jorge Brenner, March 14th, 2008, and#34;Guarding the Gulf of Mexicoand#39;s valuable resourcesand#34; www.scidev.net/en/opinions/guarding-the-gulf-of-mexico-s-valuable-resources.html Rich in biodiversity and habitats The Gulf of Mexico is rich in biodiversity and unique AND in the North Atlantic that helps to regulate the climate of western Europe. Extinction Craig 3, Associate Prof Law, Indiana U School Law, 2003 (McGeorge Law Review, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Lexis) Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for conserving marine ecosystems also exist, just as they AND kill ourselves, and we will take most of the biosphere with us.
There’s an invisible threshold – resiliency doesn’t apply Craig 11 (Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida, 12/20/11 “Legal Remedies for Deep Marine Oil Spills and Long-Term Ecological Resilience: A Match Made in Hell” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1906839) What would happen instead if we incorporated full resilience theory into our laws? As AND actions do to the ecosystems that we both impact and depend upon.185 Scenario 2 is Warming Independently, the plan is key to clean tech Sarukhan 12 (Arturo Sarukhan is a distinguished affiliate in the Foreign Policyand Metropolitan Policy programs at Brookings. He focuses on hemispheric issues, Mexico-U.S. relations, immigration policy, new security threats, and the role of cities in the 21st Century. He is chairman of Global Solutions/A Podesta Company, a global strategic consulting and risk assessment firm. The grandson and son of conflict refugees in Mexico, he served as a career diplomat in the Mexican Foreign Service for 20 years and received the rank of career ambassador in 2006, February 2012, http://www.americanambassadors.org/publications/ambassadors-review/spring-2012/mexico-and-the-united-states-a-strategic-relationship)//moxley The fourth driver … development of clean fuel. Clean tech solves climate change Klarevas ’09 12/15/09, Louis Klarevas is a Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, “Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html By not addressing … potential foes in check.
Warming is the only existential risk Deibel ’07—Prof IR @ National War College (Terry, “Foreign Affairs AND States, but potentially to the continued existence of life on this planet. Warming is real and anthropogenic – skeptics are bought off clowns Prothero 12 (Donald Prothero, Professor of Geology at Occidental College, Lecturer in Geobiology at CalTech, and#34;How We Know Global Warming is Real and Human Caused,and#34; 3/1/12, EBSCO) How do we know that global warming is real and primarily human caused? There AND change when it threatens their survival. Neither can we as a society. Wetlands
Contention two is wetlands Southeastern wetlands are key to aquatic biodiversity, the hydrologic cycle, watershed health, and prevent erosion and they’re on the brink now EPA 13 – US Environmental Protection Agency (“Protecting Wetlands in Coastal Watersheds”, Last updated on Wednesday, July 03, 2013, http://water.epa.gov/type/wetlands/cwt.cfm) Coastal wetlands include saltwater and freshwater wetlands located within coastal watersheds — specifically USGS 8 AND of carbon due to their rapid growth rates and slow decomposition rates.6 Gulf oil spills devastate wetlands environments, destroy water quality and increase soil erosion EarthGauge 10 – a National Environmental Education Foundation Program (“Gulf Oil Spill Series: Impacts on Coastal Wetland Plants”, http://www.earthgauge.net/wp-content/EG_Gulf_WetlandPlants.pdf) IMPACTS OF OIL ON COASTAL WETLANDS Most research on the impacts of oil in wetlands AND higher water levels and excess flooding that may prevent plants from growing back. Wetlands are key to the hydro-cycle – the impact is extinction Ramsar Convention 96 (“Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, Wetlands and Biodiversity, Executive Summary”, http://www.ramsar.org/about/about_biodiversity.htm, ACC: 12.20.08, p. online) Wetlands - including (inter alia) rivers, lakes, marshes, estuaries, AND transition zones between aquatic ecosystems and terrestrial ecosystems such as forests and grasslands. Soil erosion threatens all life on the planet Ikerd 99 – Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Economics at University of Missouri (John E., “Foundational Principles: Soils. Stewardship, and Sustainability,” Sep 22, http://www.ssu.missouri.edu/faculty/jikerd/papers/NCSOILS.html) A foundation is and#34;the basis upon which something stands or is supportedand#34; ( AND water to drink, and food to eat. It’s just less obvious. Econ PEMEX is failing now despite reforms Pabst, 4/12 – Writer for the Financialist (Mark, “Saving Mexico’s Golden Goose,” The Financialist, 12 April 2013, http://www.thefinancialist.com/saving-mexicos-golden-goose-pemex-mexico-oil/) Even a quick look at the numbers suggests that Pemex, Mexico’s state oil monopoly AND could tax Pemex’s available expertise, making it difficult to recoup lost production.
New Gulf oil key to PEMEX sustainability Iliff, 12 (Laurence, “Pemex Makes Its First Big Oil Find in Deep Gulf”, The Wall Street Journal, 8-29-2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577619712736497598.html) Mexican state-owned oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has made its AND Mexican side of the Gulf, but only under shared-risk contracts.
But PEMEX can’t drill it given current capabilities Melgar, 12 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Lourdes, “The Future of PEMEX”, Americas Quarterly, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781) The challenge for PEMEX is to increase reserves and oil and gas production in areas AND
nor does it have the legal authority to force PEMEX to wait.
Reform is uniquely key to solve Samples and Vittor, 12 – Samples is an associate in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. Tim ¶ advises clients on international and domestic business transactions with a particular focus on ¶ mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure, energy, and Latin America. Vittor is a partner in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. His practice is focused on business law, including commercial and corporate transactions, public-private partnerships, infrastructure and other project development and finance transactions, securities, ¶ and cross-border transactions in the U.S. and Latin America (Tim and José Luis, “Energy Reform and the Future of Mexico’s Oil Industry: The Pemex Bidding Rounds and Integrated Service Contracts,” Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, 6-21-2012, http://tjogel.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Samples-Formatted_Final_June13.pdf) In recent years, Latin America has seen an uptick in interest as a ¶ AND oil industry was passed in November 2008 (the Energy ¶ Reforms).1
PEMEX is key to Mexican economy – failure collapses it Melgar, 8 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Lourdes, “The Future of PEMEX”, Americas Quarterly, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781)¶ The oil and gas industry is a different story. Since 2004, oil AND technically bankrupt, sharply curtailing the possibilities for growth and investment for innovation. Reform is key to the economy independently of the oil portfolio CRS, 10 – Not the CRS you’re thinking; DandB Country Risk Services, an international risk-assessment company that provides information to clients on the creditworthiness of cross-border investments (DandB Country Risk Services, “MEXICO,” October 2010, http://www.dnbcountryrisk.com/FreeSamples/samplefiles/SampleGlob21010.htm) After a strong rebound in Q2 2010, there are signs that Mexico’s economic growth AND sector, reform of PEMEX is key to longer-term fiscal sustainability.
Mexico collapse causes US collapse Wilson 11 - an Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Christopher, “Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico”, Wilson Center, November 2011, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Working20Together20Full20Document.pdf)//WL The Mexican and U.S. economies are tightly integrated, with goods, AND one ¶ another and experience economic growth and setbacks in a synchronized manner. US key to the world economy – consumer country and secondary third-party shocks Dees and Saint-Guilhem 9 (“THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND ITS EVOLUTION OVER TIME” WORKING PAPER – NO 1034 / MARCH 2009, European Central Bank www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1034.pdf) The U.S. economy is very often seen as and#34;the engineand#34; AND third partners1 effects, making U.S. cyclical developments more global. That causes nuclear war Harris and Burrows 9 - *Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) , Jennifer, a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf)//BB Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is AND within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.
Mexican stability key to heg Kaplan ’12 – chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor (Robert D., With the Focus on Syria, Mexico Burns, Stratfor, 3-28-2012, http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/focus-syria-mexico-burns) While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in AND can continue to focus on serious moral questions in places that matter less. Hegemony prevents multiple nuclear conflicts Brooks et al 13 Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. “Donand#39;t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment”, Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51,http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107, GDI File A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND case would generate intensely competitive behavior, possibly including regional great power war).
Unilateralism is inevitable – multilat doesn’t cut it Bass 9 (James E Bass, Major, US Air Force, “Unilateral vs. Multilateral Engagement: A Scenario-Based Approach to Guiding America’s Future Foreign Policy,” Air Command and Staff College, Air University, p. 3-6, April 2009, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA539615) According to Stewart Patrick of the Center on International Cooperation, America’s preference for unilateral AND Bush administration’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in 2001.
Extinction Anders Sandberg 8, is a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University; Jason G. Matheny, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and special consultant to the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Milan M. ?irkovi?, senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and assistant professor of physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro, 9/8/8, “How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/how-can-we-reduce-the-risk-of-human-extinction The risks from anthropogenic…rivaling Mooreand#39;s Law.
9/22/13
1AC Wake round 1
Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Kent Denver BJ | Judge: Sarah Kirsch 1ac Plan Plan: The United States federal government should pass the Outer Continental Shelf Transboundary Hydrocarbon Agreements Authorization Act. Environment Scenario 1 is Bio-D Unlike BP, PEMEX lacks deepwater tech, insurance, experience and management. When there’s a spill, there’s no guarantee they would clean-up Johnson 12 - Tim Johnson, Maria Moors Cabot Prize, Winner and Stanford University, Knight Fellow, citing various oil experts, 3-04-12, McClatchy Newspapers, Mexico City, “Mexican plan for Gulf deepwater wells sparks new worries” http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/04/03/144004/mexican-plan-for-gulf-deepwater.html#.UdA9CvmwWuk Two years after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, AND
and#34;The risks are massive and the potential benefits are comparatively small.and#34; Florida Straits ecosystems are on the brink—a spill crushes them and spills over Hoffman ’12 – environment and science writer for numerous publications (Karen, “Cuba’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Exploration Makes Strange Bedfellows”, Earth Island Journal, 3-15-2012, http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/elist/eListRead/cubas_gulf_of_mexico_oil_exploration_makes_strange_bedfellows/) Florida’s 800 miles of coast are far from as unspoiled as Cuba’s, but they AND , Cuba and Mexico to collaborate more on marine science and conservation issues.)
The Gulf is a key ocean biodiversity hotspot Brenner 8 – Jorge Brenner, March 14th, 2008, and#34;Guarding the Gulf of Mexicoand#39;s valuable resourcesand#34; www.scidev.net/en/opinions/guarding-the-gulf-of-mexico-s-valuable-resources.html Rich in biodiversity and habitats The Gulf of Mexico is rich in biodiversity and unique AND in the North Atlantic that helps to regulate the climate of western Europe.
Extinction Craig 3, Associate Prof Law, Indiana U School Law, 2003 (McGeorge Law Review, 34 McGeorge L. Rev. 155 Lexis) Biodiversity and ecosystem function arguments for conserving marine ecosystems also exist, just as they AND kill ourselves, and we will take most of the biosphere with us.
There’s an invisible threshold – resiliency doesn’t apply Craig 11 (Robin Kundis Craig, Attorneys’ Title Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs, Florida State University College of Law, Tallahassee, Florida, 12/20/11 “Legal Remedies for Deep Marine Oil Spills and Long-Term Ecological Resilience: A Match Made in Hell” http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1906839) What would happen instead if we incorporated full resilience theory into our laws? As AND actions do to the ecosystems that we both impact and depend upon.185 Scenario 2 is Warming Independently, the plan is key to clean tech Sarukhan 12 (Arturo Sarukhan is a distinguished affiliate in the Foreign Policyand Metropolitan Policy programs at Brookings. He focuses on hemispheric issues, Mexico-U.S. relations, immigration policy, new security threats, and the role of cities in the 21st Century. He is chairman of Global Solutions/A Podesta Company, a global strategic consulting and risk assessment firm. The grandson and son of conflict refugees in Mexico, he served as a career diplomat in the Mexican Foreign Service for 20 years and received the rank of career ambassador in 2006, February 2012, http://www.americanambassadors.org/publications/ambassadors-review/spring-2012/mexico-and-the-united-states-a-strategic-relationship)//moxley The fourth driver …development of clean fuel. Clean tech solves climate change Klarevas ’09 12/15/09, Louis Klarevas is a Professor at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University, “Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony”, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html By not addressing… potential foes in check.
There’s over a 95 consensus it’s human induced- best scientists are on our side Anderegg et al 10 – PhD Candidate @ Stanford in Biology William, “Expert credibility in climate change,” National Academy of Sciences, p. 12107-12109 Preliminary reviews of scientific literature and surveys of cli- mate scientists indicate striking agreement AND discussions in media, policy, and public forums regarding anthropogenic climate change. Warming is the only existential risk Deibel ’07—Prof IR @ National War College (Terry, “Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft,” Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today) Finally, there is one … life on this planet. Econ PEMEX is failing now despite reforms Pabst, 4/12 – Writer for the Financialist (Mark, “Saving Mexico’s Golden Goose,” The Financialist, 12 April 2013, http://www.thefinancialist.com/saving-mexicos-golden-goose-pemex-mexico-oil/) Even a quick look at the numbers suggests that Pemex, Mexico’s state oil monopoly AND could tax Pemex’s available expertise, making it difficult to recoup lost production.
New Gulf oil key to PEMEX sustainability Iliff, 12 (Laurence, “Pemex Makes Its First Big Oil Find in Deep Gulf”, The Wall Street Journal, 8-29-2012, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444914904577619712736497598.html) Mexican state-owned oil firm Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, has made its AND Mexican side of the Gulf, but only under shared-risk contracts.
But PEMEX can’t drill it given current capabilities Melgar, 12 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Lourdes, “The Future of PEMEX”, Americas Quarterly, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781) The challenge for PEMEX is to increase reserves and oil and gas production in areas AND
nor does it have the legal authority to force PEMEX to wait.
Reform is uniquely key to solve Samples and Vittor, 12 – Samples is an associate in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. Tim ¶ advises clients on international and domestic business transactions with a particular focus on ¶ mergers and acquisitions, infrastructure, energy, and Latin America. Vittor is a partner in the Houston office of Hogan Lovells US LLP. His practice is focused on business law, including commercial and corporate transactions, public-private partnerships, infrastructure and other project development and finance transactions, securities, ¶ and cross-border transactions in the U.S. and Latin America (Tim and José Luis, “Energy Reform and the Future of Mexico’s Oil Industry: The Pemex Bidding Rounds and Integrated Service Contracts,” Texas Journal of Oil, Gas, and Energy Law, 6-21-2012, http://tjogel.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Samples-Formatted_Final_June13.pdf) In recent years, Latin America has seen an uptick in interest as a ¶ AND oil industry was passed in November 2008 (the Energy ¶ Reforms).1
PEMEX is key to Mexican economy – failure collapses it Melgar, 8 – director of the Center for Sustainability and Business at EGADE Business School of the Tecnológico de Monterrey (Lourdes, “The Future of PEMEX”, Americas Quarterly, 2012, http://www.americasquarterly.org/node/3781)¶ The oil and gas industry is a different story. Since 2004, oil AND technically bankrupt, sharply curtailing the possibilities for growth and investment for innovation. Reform is key to the economy independently of the oil portfolio CRS, 10 – Not the CRS you’re thinking; DandB Country Risk Services, an international risk-assessment company that provides information to clients on the creditworthiness of cross-border investments (DandB Country Risk Services, “MEXICO,” October 2010, http://www.dnbcountryrisk.com/FreeSamples/samplefiles/SampleGlob21010.htm) After a strong rebound in Q2 2010, there are signs that Mexico’s economic growth AND sector, reform of PEMEX is key to longer-term fiscal sustainability.
Mexico collapse causes US collapse Wilson 11 - an Associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (Christopher, “Working Together: Economic Ties between the United States and Mexico”, Wilson Center, November 2011, http://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/Working20Together20Full20Document.pdf)//WL The Mexican and U.S. economies are tightly integrated, with goods, AND one ¶ another and experience economic growth and setbacks in a synchronized manner. US key to the world economy – consumer country and secondary third-party shocks Dees and Saint-Guilhem 9 (“THE ROLE OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AND ITS EVOLUTION OVER TIME” WORKING PAPER – NO 1034 / MARCH 2009, European Central Bank www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1034.pdf) The U.S. economy is very often seen as and#34;the engineand#34; AND third partners1 effects, making U.S. cyclical developments more global. That causes nuclear war Harris and Burrows 9 - *Mathew, PhD European History @ Cambridge, counselor in the National Intelligence Council (NIC) , Jennifer, a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit (“Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis” http://www.ciaonet.org/journals/twq/v32i2/f_0016178_13952.pdf)//BB Increased Potential for Global Conflict Of course, the report encompasses more than economics and indeed believes the future is AND within and between states in a more dog-eat-dog world.
Mexican stability key to heg Kaplan ’12 – chief geopolitical analyst at Stratfor (Robert D., With the Focus on Syria, Mexico Burns, Stratfor, 3-28-2012, http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/focus-syria-mexico-burns) While the foreign policy elite in Washington focuses on the 8,000 deaths in AND can continue to focus on serious moral questions in places that matter less. Hegemony prevents multiple nuclear conflicts Brooks et al 13 Stephen G. Brooks is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College.G. John Ikenberry is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University in the Department of Politics and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He is also a Global Eminence Scholar at Kyung Hee University.William C. Wohlforth is the Daniel Webster Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College. “Donand#39;t Come Home, America: The Case against Retrenchment”, Winter 2013, Vol. 37, No. 3, Pages 7-51,http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/ISEC_a_00107, GDI File A core premise of deep engagement is that it prevents the emergence of a far AND case would generate intensely competitive behavior, possibly including regional great power war).
Unilateralism is inevitable – multilat doesn’t cut it Bass 9 (James E Bass, Major, US Air Force, “Unilateral vs. Multilateral Engagement: A Scenario-Based Approach to Guiding America’s Future Foreign Policy,” Air Command and Staff College, Air University, p. 3-6, April 2009, http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA539615) According to Stewart Patrick of the Center on International Cooperation, America’s preference for unilateral AND Bush administration’s refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol on climate change in 2001.
Extinction Anders Sandberg 8, is a James Martin Research Fellow at the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University; Jason G. Matheny, PhD candidate in Health Policy and Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and special consultant to the Center for Biosecurity at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Milan M. ?irkovi?, senior research associate at the Astronomical Observatory of Belgrade and assistant professor of physics at the University of Novi Sad in Serbia and Montenegro, 9/8/8, “How can we reduce the risk of human extinction?,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/how-can-we-reduce-the-risk-of-human-extinction The risks from anthropogenic…rivaling Mooreand#39;s Law.
9/7/13
2AC Relations Add-on Greenhill
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Chatahoochee AS | Judge: Talon Powers TBA key to US-Mexico relations – reverse causal Danvers et al 12 (William C., Staff Director., "OIL, MEXICO, AND THE TRANSBOUNDARY AGREEMENT", U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 77-567 WASHINGTON : 2012 A MINORITY STAFF REPORT PREPARED FOR THE USE OF THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS UNITED STATES SENATE. 12/21/12, www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CPRT-112SPRT77567/html/CPRT-112SPRT77567.htmcandle) Finally, passage of the TBA would boost U.S.-Mexico relations on AND administration formally submitting the TBA for Congressional approval and commencement of Congressional hearings.
Relations solve border terrorism and drug networks Storrs 6 (K. Larry Storrs, Specialist in Latin American Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division of CRS, 1/18/2006 “Mexico’s Importance and Multiple Relationships with the United States”, http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL33244_20060118.pdf)//JG Sharing a 2,000-mile border and extensive interconnections through the Gulf ofMexico AND , and border, terrorism,health, environment, and energy issues. Nuclear war Ayson 10 - Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington (Robert, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, 33.7, InformaWorld)BB But these two nuclear worlds—a non-state actor nuclear attack and a AND be admitted that any preemption would probably still meet with a devastating response.
9/22/13
St Marks Round 4
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Notre Dame AB | Judge: Ana Nikolic Same as Round 1
10/18/13
St Marks Round 5
Tournament: St Marks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stratford OS | Judge: Sara Sanchez Same as Round 1
10/19/13
University of Michigan New 1ac cards
Tournament: Michigan | Round: 2 | Opponent: Whitney Young DS | Judge: Robbie Quinn Russia expansionism causes nuclear war Blank 9 (Dr. Stephen, Research Professor of National Security Affairs at the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College, March, “Russia And Arms Control: Are There Opportunities For The Obama Administration?,” http://www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/pub908.pdf) Proliferators or nuclear states like China and Russia can then deter regional or intercontinental attacks AND perhaps make wars of aggression on their neighbors or their own people.172 And, it’s key to solve congressional differences that trigger impacts in the status-quo Dlouhy 10-13-13(Jennifer A. Dlouhy covers energy policy, politics and other issues for The Houston Chronicle and other Hearst Newspapers from Washington, D.C. Previously, she reported on legal affairs for Congressional Quarterly. She also has worked at The Beaumont Enterprise, The San Antonio Express-News and other newspapers, Fuel Fix, “Senate passes bill to enact US-Mexico oil treaty”, http://fuelfix.com/blog/2013/10/13/senate-passes-bill-to-enact-us-mexico-oil-treaty/).
WASHINGTON — The Senate on Saturday unanimously passed legislation to enact a long-stalled AND contain 172 million barrels of oil and 304 billion cubic feet of natural gas