Jeff Bingaman United States Senator from New Mexico

WASHINGTON - U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman meets with Rice University student Roque Sanchez of Tome, NM on a tour of the team's solar-powered house during the 2009 U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Thursday, Oct. 15.  Bingaman chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and is a national leader in pressing for a shift from a fossil-based economy to a renewable economy.