Jeff Bingaman: “We urge the Committee to significantly reform the 1872 Mining Law to stop the Rosemont and other ill conceived and…”

I'm honored to be here with Senator Udall to strongly support the nomination of Mike Connor for the position of Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Interior.

I wouldn't be here without it.

The President, in my view, could not have chosen a better nominee for the position than Mike.

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.