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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 31, 2017

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

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 31, 2017

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…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 31, 2017

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

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 31, 2017

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.

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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jan 31, 2017

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.

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Shelley Moore Capito
@shelleymoorecapito· Republican · WV· Jan 30, 2017

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mrs. Ernst). Without objection, it is so ordered. (The remarks of Mrs. Capito pertaining to the introduction of S.J. Res. 10 are printed in…

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Shelley Moore Capito
@shelleymoorecapito· Republican · WV· Jan 30, 2017

the Environmental Protection Agency, which bears most of the blame for regulations targeting energy jobs, is in dire need of a change of direction. The EPA under the Obama administration was unwilling to engage the people of West Virginia…

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Shelley Moore Capito
@shelleymoorecapito· Republican · WV· Jan 30, 2017

the last 6 years have been devastating to local economies across coal country. The Mine Safety and Health Administration has estimated that at least 60,000 coal jobs have been lost since 2011, and thousands of these jobs have been in my…

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Shelley Moore Capito
@shelleymoorecapito· Republican · WV· Jan 24, 2017

I rise today to talk about an issue that is important to all of us. We are, obviously, a nation in transition. Recently, the Senate took the first steps to repeal ObamaCare and begin a transition toward policies that will ensure continued…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 20, 2017

today I wish to honor Ken Hechler, a former Presidential adviser, veteran, public servant, author, Congressman, West Virginia's 26th Secretary of State, and educator who left a significant imprint on my home State of West Virginia. Ken was…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 18, 2017

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

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 18, 2017

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…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 17, 2017

I am back again to introduce the Miners Protection Act. It is bipartisan. We worked on it in a bipartisan manner, and we said: If it comes to the floor, we will pass it. So we are here again. This is a promise that was made since 1946…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· Jan 17, 2017

I am back again to introduce the Miners Protection Act. It is bipartisan. We worked on it in a bipartisan manner, and we said: If it comes to the floor, we will pass it. So we are here again. This is a promise that was made since 1946…

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Shelley Moore Capito
@shelleymoorecapito· Republican · WV· Jan 17, 2017

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.

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