Jeff Bingaman: “He indicated that the Department is going to do all it can to move ahead with a generation of green jobs.”

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

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

He knows the crucial role that Congress plays in setting policy and in overseeing how that policy is carried out.

I think there's an agreement that we need a permanent geologic repository.