Jeff Bingaman: “The Deep Water Horizon tragedy has taught us that such development involves a highly complex interplay of technologies…”

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.

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.

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