We believe that steps towards implementation of near-term proposals that do not have to wait for comprehensive legislative action would be a clear and unmistakable signal that the Administration and Congress are willing to take the difficult yet necessary measures to put our nation's nuclear waste management program back on track and enable its success.
Bingaman emphasizes the need for immediate action on nuclear waste management.
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It's important that we have a person with substantial knowledge and many varied skills in order to succeed.
I think all of us, if we were choosing a Secretary of Energy, would want to choose somebody with those attributes.
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.
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