Even if you are down 1,000 people at the Agency, you can afford to have that occur?

What we had was great. We had a respectful, we had a very informative and it was a very good conversation that we had in as a starting of a good relationship. It really was.

I want this drinking water level, as I have tried to put in legislation out much sooner than what we expect it to be, and I am going to keep pushing on that, because I think that is critical.

That is why, in the height of the pandemic, I worked alongside Senator Murkowski and others to introduce the Emergency Family Stabilization Act.

If we know that these opioids are causing the problem, we need treatment centers, and we have not enough.

The 340B program is essential for providing access to safe and affordable medications for low-income West Virginians.

I wanted to ask on the--the EPA's budget justification would devote millions--hundreds of millions of dollars to environmental justice activities.

Senator Joe Manchin has said that he opposes the For the People Act and that he will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.

Senator Manchin came out in opposition to the Senate`s For the People Act, which would basically create a modern voting infrastructure.

The West Virginia poll also shows that Joe Manchin is against the tide of his own constituents, his own voters on that.

I think it`s the wrong piece of legislation to bring our country together and unite our country. And I`m not supporting that because I think it would divide us further.

The John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act would update the formula states and localities must use to ensure proposed voting laws do not restrict the rights of any particular group or population.

Conservative Democratic Senator Joe Manchin from West Virginia, he’s the only Democrat in the Senate who is not signed on to sponsored voting rights bill and this weekend said he doesn’t support it.

I believe that partisan voting legislation will destroy the already weakening binds of our democracy, and for that reason, I will vote against the For the People Act. Furthermore, I will not vote to weaken or eliminate the filibuster.

I have always said, if I said I can’t go home and explain it, I can’t vote for it. And I can’t explain strictly partisan election reform or blowing up the Senate rules to expedite one party’s agenda.

I don’t think so, because we have seven brave Republicans who continue to vote for what they know is right and facts as they see them, not worrying about political consequences.

But ultimately, voting rights and election integrity are so fundamentally important that you have to, I believe, support the president and get this done. If it means changing the filibuster rule, I would favor doing that.

I don`t think so, because we have seven brave Republicans that continue to vote for what they know is right and the facts as they see them.