Jeff Bingaman

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

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

People should not be imprisoned without having the ability to challenge the legality of that imprisonment.

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.

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