[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1613 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1613

To require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress 
   an unclassified report on energy security and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 13, 2007

  Mr. Wyden (for himself and Mr. Chambliss) introduced the following 
  bill; which was read twice and referred to the Select Committee on 
                              Intelligence

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Director of National Intelligence to submit to Congress 
   an unclassified report on energy security and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Weighing Intelligence for Smarter 
Energy Act of 2007'' or the ``WISE Act of 2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) The members of the intelligence community in the United 
        States, most notably the National Intelligence Council, the 
        Office of Intelligence and Counterintelligence of the 
        Department of Energy, and the Office of Transnational Issues of 
        the Central Intelligence Agency, possess substantial analytic 
        expertise with regard to global energy issues.
            (2) Energy policy debates generally do not use, to the 
        fullest extent possible, the expertise available in the 
        intelligence community.

SEC. 3. REPORT ON ENERGY SECURITY.

    (a) Requirement.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, the Director of National 
        Intelligence shall submit to Congress a report on the long-term 
        energy security of the United States.
            (2) Form of report.--The report required by subsection (a) 
        shall be submitted in an unclassified form and may include a 
        classified annex.
    (b) Content.--The report submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall 
include the following:
            (1) An assessment of key energy issues that have national 
        security or foreign policy implications for the United States.
            (2) An assessment of the future of world energy supplies, 
        including the impact likely and unlikely scenarios may have on 
        world energy supply.
            (3) A description of--
                    (A) the policies being pursued, or expected to be 
                pursued, by the major energy producing countries or by 
                the major energy consuming countries, including 
                developing countries, to include policies that utilize 
                renewable resources for electrical and biofuel 
                production;
                    (B) an evaluation of the probable outcomes of 
                carrying out such policy options, including--
                            (i) the economic and geopolitical impact of 
                        the energy policy strategies likely to be 
                        pursued by such countries;
                            (ii) the likely impact of such strategies 
                        on the decisionmaking processes on major energy 
                        cartels; and
                            (iii) the impact of policies that utilize 
                        renewable resources for electrical and biofuel 
                        production, including an assessment of the 
                        ability of energy consuming countries to reduce 
                        dependence on oil using renewable resources, 
                        the economic, environmental, and developmental 
                        impact of an increase in biofuels production in 
                        both developed and developing countries, and 
                        the impact of an increase in biofuels 
                        production on global food supplies; and
                    (C) the potential impact of such outcomes on the 
                energy security and national security of the United 
                States.
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