Senator Jeff Bingaman

Democrat  •  New Mexico  •  5th Term  •  Sworn In 1983
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09/25/09
Expensive ideas

...will face would be a recipe for bankruptcy. "That would be a very substantial additional intervention in the marketplace," Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., said of premium price controls. "I just don't think the support would be there for that kind of a chan

09/25/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

From rear, Senators Jeff Bingaman, Kent Conrad, Max Baucus and Charles Grassley in a Senate Finance Committee hearing. Who would have thought that so many ...

Source: New York Times
09/25/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mex.), Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R- Maine) and Sen. ...

Source: Baltimore Sun
09/25/09
Wilderness bill to preserve views

Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall introduced the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks Wilderness Act to gain permanent federal protection for 359000 acres in Doña Ana ...

Source: Las Cruces Bulletin
09/25/09
In Senate vote, Carper takes drug makers' side

Tom Carper, D-Del., Sen. Jeff Bingaman, DN.M. and Sen. Ken Conrad, DN.D. listen on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday as the committee continued markup ...

Source: The News Journal
09/25/09
House Democrats considering insurance tax

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Senate Finance Committee members, from left, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, DN.M., Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., Sen. Charles Schumer, DN. ...

Source: Atlanta Journal Constitution
09/25/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mex.), Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R- Maine) and Sen. ...

Source: Baltimore Sun
09/25/09
Health Care Reform Glossary

Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mex.), Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Sen. Charles Grassley (R- Iowa), Sen. Olympia Snowe (R- Maine) and Sen. ...

Source: Baltimore Sun
09/24/09
Mind Research Network in Albuquerque Awarded $11.09 Million

...be used to advance MRN’s mission of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of mental illnesses and other brain disorders, Sen. Jeff Bingaman announced Wednesday. “The Mind Research Network is doing exceptional research that is essential to both underst

09/24/09
Health bills steer clear of premium relief

...automobile and homeowners insurance. "That would be a very substantial additional intervention in the marketplace," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., who worked with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on his health care bill. "I just

09/24/09
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09/24/09
Mandate minus price controls may add to cost of healthcare

...banished from the healthcare debate. "That would be a very substantial additional intervention in the marketplace," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), a member of a bipartisan group of lawmakers who worked with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucu

09/24/09
Senate Cloaks Obamacare

...on the committee supported that effort.  But it was voted down, 11-12, thanks to votes by: Sen. Max Baucus (D, WY) Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D, NM) Sen. Maria Cantwell (D, WA) Sen. Tom Carper (D, DE) Sen. Kent Conrad (D, ND) Sen. John Kerry (D, MA) Sen. Robe

09/24/09
Finance Committee to take up employer mandate

...would require employees to offer their workers health insurance. The proposal, sponsored by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.) and Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), would mandate that large employers must insure their workers or pay a $750 fine for every full-time employ

Source: The Hill
09/24/09
Health bills steer clear of premium relief

...automobile and homeowners insurance. "That would be a very substantial additional intervention in the marketplace," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., who worked with Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., on his health care bill. "I just

09/24/09
Sen. Jeff Bingaman answers Grist's questions on the climate bill ...

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (DN.M.) is chairman of the Energy & Natural Resources Committee and a key player on energy issues. ...

Source: Grist Magazine
09/24/09
NMSU-Grants

3; I received a phone call from New Mexico Senator Jeff Bingaman's office that our campus was awarded one of this year's US Department of Education Title V ...

Source: Cibola County Beacon
09/24/09
New Groups Revive the Debate Over Causes of Climate Change

Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) may be grappling with health care, but in Montana a new advocacy group opposed to climate legislation called C02 ...

Source: Washington Post
09/24/09
Slower Than a Melting Ice Cap

That worries environmentalists who see finance chair Max Baucus struggling to pass health-care legislation, and anticipate energy chair Jeff Bingaman being ...

Source: Newsweek
09/24/09
The other meaning of 'health care'

Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Luján. But why so little attention to that 1970s micro-trend, wellness? This notion was briefly in vogue among ...

Source: New Mexican
09/24/09
Federal funding aids Farmington police

Earmarked by Sen. Jeff Bingaman in a spending bill, the latest in funding for local authorities amounts to more than $105000 from the Edward Byrne Memorial ...

Source: Farmington Daily Times
09/24/09
RE: Jeff Bingaman

"That would be a very substantial additional intervention in the marketplace," said Sen. Jeff Bingaman (DN.M.), a member of a bipartisan group of lawmakers ...

Source: Los Angeles Times
09/24/09
NRF Asks Senate Finance Committee to Reject Kerry-Bingaman Employer Mandate ...

Under an amendment offered by Finance Committee members Senators John Kerry, D-Mass., and Jeff Bingaman, DN.M., that requirement would be replaced by the ...

Source: Reuters
09/23/09
Live Blogging the Senate Finance Markup of Health Bill

...talking about government contractors hired by the government to stand in the place of government," said New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman. "Government should not impede the ability of that contractor to run TV ads or influence Congress. But to say they shou

09/23/09
Long-awaited Senate health care debate begins

...Finance Committee members, from front, Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, listen to opening remarks Tuesday. (Susan Walsh, The Associated Press ) WASHINGTON — Bidding for suppor

Source: Denver Post
09/23/09
Udall, other Senate freshmen, speak against health care inaction

This is a committee which Senator Jeff Bingaman sits on, and the bill coming out of this committee is the last in either the House or Senate to be voted on ...

Source: The New Mexico Independent
09/23/09
ACCCE Coal Lobby Targeting Key Democrats In Senate Climate Debate

Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has begun hearings on the economic implications of climate change ...

Source: Huffington Post (blog)
09/22/09
Turbine Makers Press for Green Mandates

...in the Senate -- calls for 20% of electricity to come from renewable sources by 2020. Another bill, proposed by Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D, N.M.), requires a weaker standard: 15% of electricity from renewable sources by 2021. The wind-turbine industry said t

09/22/09
Senators Begin Battle Over Baucus Health Care Bill

...to a national health care system." "I do not support a government takeover of our health care system," he said. Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.), one of the gang of six who negotiated with Baucus to create the bill, said conversely that he supported a publi

Source: CBS News
09/22/09
Nate Silver: Health Care Is Hazardous To Poll Numbers For Grassley, Other Senators

...care negotiations -- is that each one started out the year in a place of seeming electoral invincibility. Baucus, Kent Conrad, Jeff Bingaman, Olympia Snowe, Chuck Grassley and Mike Enzi won re-election with an average of 72 percent of the vote as of the

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