Jeff Bingaman: “The energy bill that the 107th Congress almost produced... is a good bill.”

I think all of us, if we were choosing a Secretary of Energy, would want to choose somebody with those attributes.

The President, in my view, could not have chosen a better nominee for the position than Mike.

First we would want a person as Secretary of Energy who had a knowledge of science and engineering.

He has demonstrated, on numerous occasions, his ability to find solutions to very difficult problems and to find solutions that could gain the support of Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike.