Jeff Bingaman: “Passage of S.409 would give us access to land needed to complete our $1 billion exploration and pre-feasibility effort.”

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

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.