Jeff Bingaman: “You're agnostic on the question?”

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.

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.