An Agreement with the Government of India for the Application of Safeguards to Civilian Nuclear Facilities.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave this speech in Las Vegas, Nevada on June 25, 2008.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave this speech at Fresno State College in Fresno, California on June 23, 2008.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain gave this speech in Houston, Texas on June 17, 2008.

This report argues that the lack of sustained attention to energy issues is undercutting U.S. foreign policy and national security.

This report asserts a U.S.-Russia "partnership" is the right long-term goal, but not a realistic prospect over the next few years. This report is also available in Russian.

At the start of President Bush’s first term in office, Vice President Dick Cheney chaired a high-level government task force on energy, several months after the Council on Foreign Relations released its independent Task Force report, “Strategic Energy Policy: Challenges for the 21^st Century.”  The Council’s initial report is updated here, taking into account the Bush administration’s energy policies during its first six months in office.  

There could be more Californias in America’s future unless the U.S. government adopts a long-term, comprehensive energy policy now, according to an Independent Task Force report cosponsored by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy of Rice University in Houston and the Council on Foreign Relations.