Jeff Bingaman: “I believe that it is time for us to change the way in which the public lands are patented.”

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.

He knows the crucial role that Congress plays in setting policy and in overseeing how that policy is carried out.

It seems to me we have sort of three different issues, and maybe more than three.

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