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

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

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

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

We believe the bill that Senator Bingaman has prepared represents a very useful starting point for an important discussion.