But even without top-down direction, America currently has a better, most sensible approach to...: Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, accompanied by the committee's ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash. holds a bumper sticker during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) It is a cliché to say the United States has no energy policy, and in the formal sense, it's true. The federal government has never passed sweeping legislation aimed at advancing U.S. energy security that addresses both supply and demand.