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We need a functioning Environmental Protection Agency, and Americans deserve the change at the EPA that they voted for this fall.

Disagreement with a nominee's position cannot justify a decision to boycott a scheduled Committee vote.

80 percent of life is showing up. They are living on 20 percent of life right now.

A lot of the hospitals have told me that if an addicted person comes and they do not get what they ask for... they will call their Congressman or Senator.

I think we are on a positive role there and a positive movement.

You would lead the charge nationwide and it would be a great help for the society.

If the Affordable Care Act goes down, we are dead.

It is also within veterans. In my veteran corps it has been very detrimental to them.

If we're ever going to be back into the majority, they're going to have to learn to work with moderates, people that come from red states like myself that might not be able to support certain levels of a base that goes a little bit further…

They all agree that we are still very vulnerable.

I could--any hostile country--and he said as a matter of fact I could take 10 engineers from U.C. Berkeley and I could shut down the electric grid between Boston and New York within four days.

This issue has come up literally every year since I've been in this committee for the last 6 years and I keep being told that everything is going to be fine, that we have got things under control.

If they want to get something done, I can try to help make that happen.

But the bottom line is it's the process that we go through that makes us different. That's what we're honoring.

Well, first of all, two wrongs don't make a right. And I think the Republican leadership had led the Republican Party up here in Congress to basically stone wall everything and stop and block everything. That didn't work well and the…

You introduced him today.

I thank my most generous friend from Rhode Island, Senator Whitehouse, for allowing me to speak for a few minutes. (The remarks of Mr. Manchin pertaining to the introduction of S. 175 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on…

The people that are affected by this environmentally and health-wise are just as important as the people who stand to lose their jobs over this.