Jeff Bingaman: “I was very glad to work with Senator Murkowski last year and all members of the committee to report bipartisan energy…”

I wish to take a few minutes to speak about what needs to be done before we leave town, before we shut down this session of the Congress. In my view, Congress needs to do five things before the end of the year to head off difficulties for…

We ought to be encouraging that. That should not be something that we just do for 3 years or 5 years.

Second, we would want a person with demonstrated managerial abilities.

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