Jeff Bingaman: “I also want to express my deep gratitude to Senator Baucus for sponsoring the Heritage Act.”

I want to recognize the distinguished service of my friend Bruce Black, the Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. Bruce has chosen to leave the Federal bench at the end of this month. His decision to…

in 1981, in his first inaugural address, President Reagan said: Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. I came to the Senate 2 years later in 1983 with the firm belief that in most cases his statement was…

earlier today, the Senate voted to grant permanent normal trade relations to Russia by a vote of 92 to 4, and I strongly supported that bill. To extend PNTR to Russia, we had to repeal an out-of-date policy that was adopted during the Cold…

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