Jeff Bingaman: “First, Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that following my remarks, the Senator from Utah, Mr. Hatch, be…”

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

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.

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.