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-- The Taliban threat in Afghanistan has been greatly reduced.

-- ''The increase in actionable intelligence that the counterinsurgency produced led to the capture or death of Osama bin Laden, and his chief lieutenants,'' McCain said. ''There still has not been a major terrorist attack in the United States since Sept. 11, 2001.''

-- A ''League of Democracies'' has supplanted a failed United Nations to apply sanctions to the Sudanese government and halt genocide in Darfur.

-- The United States has had ''several years of robust growth,'' appropriations bills free of lawmakers' pet projects known as ''earmarks,'' public education improved by charter schools, health care improved by expansion of the private market and an energy crisis stemmed through the start of construction on 20 new nuclear reactors.

-- Democrats are asked to serve in his administration, he holds weekly news conferences and, like the British prime minister, answers questions publicly from lawmakers.

McCain also pledges to halt a Bush administration practice of enacting laws with accompanying signing statements that exempt the president from having to enforce parts he finds objectionable.

''I will respect the responsibilities the Constitution and the American people have granted Congress,'' the senator said, ''and will, as I often have in the past, work with anyone of either party to get things done for our country.''

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