Jeff Bingaman: “Robust safety and environmental standards, and tough penalties for noncompliance with those standards, help to avoid…”

In December 2010 U.S. Senators Tom Udall, Tom Harkin, and Jeff Bingaman requested an independent study from the National Academy of Sciences on whether chimpanzees are necessary as invasive research subjects.

It's important that we have a person with substantial knowledge and many varied skills in order to succeed.

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

I wouldn't be here without it.