Jeff Bingaman: “We appreciate your interest in and leadership on this issue.”

I'm honored to be here with Senator Udall to strongly support the nomination of Mike Connor for the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior.

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.