As a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel (R) champions strong U.S. leadership in climate policy as the most effective approach to improve the world’s economic, energy, environmental and security policies. Senator Hagel is an original co-sponsor of legislation to develop an International Clean Technology Deployment Fund, which would assist in confronting the challenge of increasing energy demand worldwide by aiding developing countries’ efforts to tackle climate change and promoting international deployment of U.S. clean energy technology. Serving his second term in the U.S. Senate, Senator Hagel also is a member of the Senate Banking Committee, the Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and the Intelligence and Rules Committee.
