Jeff Bingaman: “In 2008, Senator Bingaman introduced legislation to create a 21st Century Energy Deployment Corporation.”

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

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.

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

Second, we would want a person with demonstrated managerial abilities.