Jeff Bingaman: “I think we'll see again, that Republicans are not going to embrace your land sales proposal and I hope that you'll be…”

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

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.

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.