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Likely presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie are playing to their energy industry constituents this week, albeit from opposite ends of the spectrum. Clinton will speak to a group of "clean energy" leaders Thursday afternoon in Las Vegas, while Christie, the Republican governor of New Jersey, is appealing to oil and gas developers.

Clinton, a Democrat, and Christie have yet to formally declare their intentions to vie for the U.S. presidency in 2016. (Nor has anyone else.) But both are considered likely contenders and are assumed to be laying the groundwork for campaigns.

Clinton, the former first lady, New York senator and secretary of state, will deliver the keynote speech at Thursdays Clean Energy Summit, a daylong event hosted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. (The speech will be broadcast live at 3:50 p.m. PDT.)

Her remarks are likely to resonate with crucial constituencies in the renewable energy and liberal ranks, people active in both groups told Politico this week. Supporters hope Clinton will call for renewing an expired tax credit for wind energy producers as well as measures to curb global warming emissions.

Shes going to talk about how [clean energy] remains a potential area of economic growth, and its increasingly one where we have global competition, Neera Tanden, the policy director of Clintons 2008 presidential campaign and head of the Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank, told MSNBC.

The former top diplomat is unlikely, however, to touch the red-hot subject of the Keystone XL pipeline, which would ship Canadian tar sands crude oil to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries. Clintons State Department oversaw part of the environmental review process, which is still in progress, though President Barack Obama will have the final word on whether it gets built. MSNBC noted that Clinton has largely dodged questions about the pipeline, saying any answers could interfere with the process.

Christie, by contrast, pounced on Keystone XL during a Wednesday policy speech in Mexico City. He said delays on the pipeline have had a chilling effect on economic growth and job creation. We are missing an enormous opportunity when we delay development of the Keystone XL Pipeline, he told a crowd at the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico, a business advocacy group.

TransCanada Corp. (NYSE:TRP) first proposed the pipeline in 2008, during the Bush administration, but a final verdict seems unlikely to come before 2015. Obama postponed his decision on the pipeline until a legal dispute in the Nebraska Supreme Court is resolved, but the court isnt expected to issue a final ruling before the new year.

Christie asserted that, if built, the 1,179-mile conduit would drive down the price of oil and help consumers in all North American countries, although the pipelines impact on global oil markets is highly disputed.

He also called for an end to the four-decade-long ban on U.S. crude oil exports - - a policy shift that the chief executive of Royal Dutch Shell PLC (NYSE:RDS.A), Ben van Beurden, called for earlier this week at a New York energy conference, the New York Times noted. Van Beurden said lifting the ban, which was meant to conserve domestic oil reserves after the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s, could make the global energy system much more stable.

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By Hillary Rodham Clinton September 4 at 3:00 PM

Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 67th secretary of state.

When Americans look around the world today, we see one crisis after another. Russian aggression in Ukraine, extremism and chaos in Iraq and Syria, a deadly epidemic in West Africa, escalating territorial tensions in the East and South China seas, a global economy that still isnt producing enough growth or shared prosperity the liberal international order that the United States has worked for generations to build and defend seems to be under pressure from every quarter. Its no wonder so many Americans express uncertainty and even fear about our role and our future in the world.

In his new book, World Order, Henry Kissinger explains the historic scope of this challenge. His analysis, despite some differences over specific policies, largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administrations effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.

During the Cold War, Americas bipartisan commitment to protecting and expanding a community of nations devoted to freedom, market economies and cooperation eventually proved successful for us and the world. Kissingers summary of that vision sounds pertinent today: an inexorably expanding cooperative order of states observing common rules and norms, embracing liberal economic systems, forswearing territorial conquest, respecting national sovereignty, and adopting participatory and democratic systems of governance.

This system, advanced by U.S. military and diplomatic power and our alliances with like-minded nations, helped us defeat fascism and communism and brought enormous benefits to Americans and billions of others. Nonetheless, many people around the world today especially millions of young people dont know these success stories, so it becomes our responsibility to show as well as tell what American leadership looks like.

This is especially important at a time when many are wondering, as Kissinger puts it, Are we facing a period in which forces beyond the restraints of any order determine the future?

For me, this is a familiar question. When I walked into the State Department in January 2009, everyone knew that it was a time of dizzying changes, but no one could agree on what they all meant. Would the economic crisis bring new forms of cooperation or a return to protectionism and discord? Would new technologies do more to help citizens hold leaders accountable or to help dictators keep tabs on dissidents? Would rising powers such as China, India and Brazil become global problem-solvers or global spoilers? Would the emerging influence of non-state actors be defined more by the threats from terrorist networks and criminal cartels, or by the contributions of courageous NGOs? Would growing global interdependence bring a new sense of solidarity or new sources of strife?

President Obama explained the overarching challenge we faced in his Nobel lecture in December 2009. After World War II, he said, America led the world in constructing an architecture to keep the peace. ... And yet, a decade into a new century, this old architecture is buckling under the weight of new threats.

I was proud to help the president begin reimagining and reinforcing the global order to meet the demands of an increasingly interdependent age. In the presidents first term, we laid the foundation, from repaired alliances to updated international institutions to decisive action on challenges such as Irans nuclear program and the threat from Osama bin Laden.

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Billionaire Carlos Slims contribution to the Clinton Foundation is paying off.

Hillary Clinton will be on hand Sept. 5 for Slims annual event to honor his own charitys scholarship students. Clinton, the former U.S. Secretary of State and First Lady, will become the second potential 2016 presidential candidate to visit Mexico this week, following New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who arrived today.

A press official for Slims foundation confirmed Clinton will be a speaker at the event, which also features Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, soccer star Ronaldinho and actor Antonio Banderas.

A Slim-backed charity contributed at least $1 million to the Clinton Foundations drive to raise $250 million for its endowment. U.S. law bans foreigners such as Slim, who was born in Mexico and continues to live there, from giving to political campaigns, so a possible Clinton presidential run wouldnt be competing for his dollars.

Potential Republican and Democratic candidates are lining up to court Hispanic voters who proved pivotal in President Barack Obamas 2012 election victory. Christie arrived in Mexico today for a three-day trade mission, and Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, an eye surgeon, went to Guatemala last month as part of a pro bono medical team that performed operations to restore the sight of poor patients.

We have a really full schedule and a lot of extraordinarily interesting folks to meet with -- to be having conversations with -- in the government and private sector, Christie said today in Mexico City at the start of a meeting with U.S. ambassador Tony Wayne. I think this will be really productive not only for the state but for me to listen and learn while Im here.

Slim, the worlds second-richest man, funds health, education and public-welfare initiatives through his telecommunications companys Telmex Foundation and through the separate Slim Foundation. Slim trails only Bill Gates among the worlds richest people, with a fortune of $82.4 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Slim was honored in 2012 with a Global Citizen Award by the Clinton Global Initiative, one of the Clinton Foundations arms.

To contact the reporters on this story: Patricia Laya in Mexico City at playa2@bloomberg.net; Eric Martin in Mexico City at emartin21@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Carlos Manuel Rodriguez at carlosmr@bloomberg.net Crayton Harrison

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By Dan Merica, CNN

updated 4:49 PM EDT, Wed September 3, 2014

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Washington (CNN) -- Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger used a short speech at the State Department on Wednesday to joke about the prospect of Hillary Clinton running for President in 2016.

Standing on stage with five other former or current secretaries of state, Kissinger -- who served as secretary of state under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford -- highlighted the work of diplomats and foreign service officers as he spoke at the groundbreaking for the United States Diplomacy Center, a museum set to honor diplomatic work.

He then, however, dropped a slight joke about the prospect of Clinton running for president.

"We all know that we will never do anything more challenging in our lives than to serve these objectives," Kissinger said. "I would say all of us, except one."

Clinton, who served four years as President Barack Obama's top diplomat, is widely considered the frontrunner for the Democrat's presidential nomination in 2016. She has hinted at thinking about running for the job and has a cadre of groups organizing around the possibility that she runs.

Joining Kissinger and Clinton on stage for the groundbreaking were former secretaries James Baker, III, Madeleine Albright, and Colin Powell -- along with current Secretary of State John Kerry.

During her short remarks, Clinton heaped praise on her colleagues and told the audience that Kissinger has "written the book on diplomacy."

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