Jeff Bingaman: “Thank you for what you have done for our area, for New Mexico and for Clovis.”

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

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.

He has demonstrated, on numerous occasions, his ability to find solutions to very difficult problems and to find solutions that could gain the support of Democrats, Republicans and Independents alike.