Jeff Bingaman

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

The United States is the most innovative country in the world. But our leadership could slip away if we fail to properly fund primary, secondary and higher education.

I support concrete and progressive immigration reform based on three primary criteria: family reunification, economic contributions, and humanitarian concerns.

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.