Jeff Bingaman: “I believe that starting from this consensus vehicle will be helpful in working quickly through the issue this year.”

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

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

We ought to be encouraging that. That should not be something that we just do for 3 years or 5 years.

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) requested agency information on the amount of EAJA fees paid out by the U.S. Forest Service from 1999 through 2005.