Jeff Bingaman: “Palau will faithfully honor all of its obligations and responsibilities under the Compact of Free Association.”

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.

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.

First we would want a person as Secretary of Energy who had a knowledge of science and engineering.