Senator Jeff Bingaman

Democrat  •  New Mexico  •  5th Term  •  Sworn In 1983
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11/23/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

George Voinovich, R-Ohio, missed the vote to celebrate the 30th anniversary of becoming the mayor of Cleveland. Both Tom Udall, DN.M., and Jeff Bingaman, ...

Source: The New Mexico Independent
11/23/09
Bingaman To Visit Navajo Nation Tuesday

...-- New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman is scheduled to visit Gallup and the Navajo Nation Tuesday. The Democrat is expected to discuss a new law creating the Navajo-Gallup pipeline, a water rights settlement intended to provide future water for the Navajo Nat

Source: KOAT
11/21/09
The Senate's Duty on Climate

The Democratic Senators Barbara Boxer and Jeff Bingaman have produced bills that could form the basis of a broad measure curbing emissions and ushering in ...

Source: New York Times
11/20/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

US Sen. Jeff Bingaman made the announcement Thursday. The New Mexico Democrat says the service is important to the area's economy and is an asset to nearby ...

Source: KVIA
11/20/09
Senate committee members trade barbs at OCS technology hearing

20 -- A US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing which chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) hoped would “move away from rhetoric and focus on the ...

Source: Oil & Gas Journal
11/20/09
Senate faces crucial vote on health care

...spoke in terms both lofty and local. "In the 27 years I've been in the Senate, we have not gotten to this point," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., who then detailed the bill's effects on his state. Republicans charged that the measure is too expensive a

Source: Miami Herald
11/19/09
National Science Foundation-funded Projects Featured at Education Event

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, as well as Senators Patty Murray, Jeff Bingaman, Kay Hagan and Ted Kaufman were among ...

Source: TMCnet
11/19/09
'Super Star' Green Label Proposed

Senator Jeff Bingaman, the Democrat of New Mexico who introduced the clean energy legislation and is chairman of the Senate energy committee, ...

Source: Reuters
11/18/09
Third Time the Charm for Roosevelt Scholars?

A proposal to create the Roosevelt Scholars Program -- sort of a civilian ROTC program to encourage college students to pursue careers in government through scholarships and stipends -- has been introduced in the Senate by George Voinovich, R-Ohio, and

Source: GovExec.com
11/18/09
Pros and cons of 'cap and trade'

US Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, introduced a clean energy bill in the Senate last summer. It cleared the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and now ...

Source: New Mexico Free Press
11/17/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico), head of the energy panel, said November 16 that he plans to introduce a bill that would require the Department of ...

Source: Examiner.com
11/17/09
Don't Blame US for Standoff in Int'l Climate Talks, Senators Say

The committee chairman, Democrat Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, said the United States heads into Copenhagen on solid footing because of the overall direction ...

Source: New York Times
11/17/09
Senate Approves Udall, Bingaman & Bond Amendment to Fight Veteran Homelessness

by New Mexico RealEstateRama WASHINGTON, DC - November 17, 2009 - (RealEstateRama) — US Senators Tom Udall (D-NM), Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) and Kit Bond (R-MO) ...

Source: RealEstateRama
11/17/09
US House health care bill includes Medicaid money for NM

A spokeswoman for US Sen. Jeff Bingaman said Monday that he supported extending extra Medicaid funding to the states for a full year, rather than the ...

Source: The New Mexico Independent
11/16/09
Former Senator Pete Domenici Receives Lewis Award From American Nuclear Society

... Senator Domenici was joined by several distinguished experts including Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and current Senators Jeff Bingaman and Lamar ...

Source: PR Newswire (press release)
11/16/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

... to $30400 to see senators, including California's Barbara Boxer and New Mexico's Jeff Bingaman, discuss technology and policy at Google's headquarters. ...

Source: Air America
11/15/09
Texas & Region

...New Mexico communities have received $1 million in federal grants to improve distance learning and telemedicine. Sen. Jeff Bingaman says all three grants come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Distance Learning and Telemedicine Program. He says

11/15/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

As the co-sponsor, with Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, of a previous global warming bill that addressed the matter using the "cap and trade" methodology, ...

Source: Lansdale Reporter
11/15/09
Parties cash in on hot issues

Jeff Bingaman, John Thune, Barbara Boxer and Susan Collins -- for a price. Photo: AP photo composite by POLITICO Top industry executives piled into Google's ...

Source: Politico
11/15/09
Specter talks transit, health care

As the co-sponsor, with Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, of a previous global warming bill that addressed the matter using the "cap and trade" methodology, ...

Source: Lansdale Reporter
11/15/09
Local news digest

... and served as a senior staff member for US Sen. Jeff Bingaman, DN.M., during the 1980s and 1990s. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, ...

Source: The Bozeman Daily Chronicle
11/14/09
Exelon CEO John Rowe raises profile D.C.

...of Oklahoma called him a "hypocrite." The most enjoyable part, he said, has been serious policy discussions with Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat. ("He's a low-key person who doesn't make threats.") Manik Roy of the Pew Center on Global Climat

11/14/09
A new park to save the plains

Last week, Democratic US senators Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico and Max Baucus of Montana introduced a bill to fully and permanently fund the Land and Water ...

Source: Kansas City Star
11/14/09
Exelon CEO John Rowe raises profile in Washington

The most enjoyable part, he said, has been serious policy discussions with Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat. ("He's a low-key person who doesn't ...

Source: Chicago Tribune
11/13/09
Dems' fundraiser raises

Zachary Coile, a spokesman for Boxer, said Thursday that "Sen. Boxer was invited to join this panel to deliver the same message she's been giving in ...

Source: San Francisco Chronicle
11/13/09
Dems' fundraiser raises

...John Doerr and others who "invite you to join" Boxer and other senators, including Feinstein, Mark Warner of Virginia, Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Mark Begich of Alaska. Joel Benenson, pollster for President Obama, is listed

11/13/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

WASHINGTON (KRQE) - Sen. Jeff Bingaman issued a statement in remembrance of former Gov. Bruce King, who died Friday, Nov. 13. "Bruce King was as dedicated ...

Source: KRQE
11/13/09
Senate's Battle Lines: Immigration

That language passed with the support of Jeff Bingaman, DN.M., who later told the New York Times that Democrats were not trying to expand health care to ...

Source: National Journal (blog)
11/13/09
Wilderness alternatives sought

Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall. Bingaman also chairs the committee. The committee gave him five minutes for his oral testimony. “And they had a little box with ...

Source: Las Cruces Bulletin
11/13/09
LHS building trades house No. 1 done

Diane Denish, Senator Vernon Asbill, and representatives for Senator Jeff Bingaman, US Senator Tom Udall and Congressman Harry Teague praised the project. ...

Source: Carlsbad Current Argus

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Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-5521
Fax: 202-224-2852

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