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Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is trying to elicit support from fellow senators to get the Bush White House to reinstate the funding for oil and natural gas research and development (R&D) that it proposes to cut as part of its forthcoming budget request for fiscal year 2006.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is trying to elicit support from fellow senators to get the Bush White House to reinstate the funding for oil and natural gas research and development (R&D) that it proposes to cut as part of its forthcoming budget request for fiscal year 2006.

The ranking energy lawmakers in the Senate and House, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), met for the first time last Thursday in their roles as committee chairmen and vowed to work out their differences with the troubled broad energy bill that’s idling away in the Senate.

The ranking energy lawmakers in the Senate and House, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), met for the first time Thursday in their roles as committee chairmen and vowed to work out their differences with the broad energy bill.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has reintroduced a bipartisan bill intended to spur development of energy resources on Indian lands, where only a quarter of the oil and less than a fifth of the natural gas resources have been developed, according to the Department of the Interior.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM), ranking member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has reintroduced a bipartisan bill intended to spur development of energy resources on Indian lands, where only a quarter of the oil and less than a fifth of the natural gas resources have been developed, according to the Department of the Interior.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, signaled last Tuesday that he will block the Republican nominee for a seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unless the White House names a Democratic nominee for the other vacant position on the five-member Commission.

Sen. Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, signaled Tuesday he will block the Republican nominee for a seat on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission unless the White House names a Democratic nominee for the other vacant position on the five-member Commission.

Rep. Henry Waxman of California, ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, has stepped up his campaign to ferret out what the Bush administration knew about Enron Corp.’s financial problems and when, sending out another round of letters to top White House and administration officials for information and records.