Jeff Bingaman: “Governor Richardson has come out very recently in full support of the bill.”

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

It seems to me we have sort of three different issues, and maybe more than three.

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

We fully support Chairman Bingaman's caution that any temporary storage facility must not become a permanent one.