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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jun 1, 2015

We have infrastructure needs. And it is very difficult to get permits, it takes years, and so as we are shutting down coal plants through regulatory orders, we don't always have the capability to get the energy product to where it needs to…

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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jun 1, 2015

Remember, a third of the hospitals could very well go under if they have to make these payments.

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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jun 1, 2015

We have been given the runaround. I have never seen so many fingers pointing in different directions.

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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jun 1, 2015

I hope you understand, this kind of smacks of bullying on the part of CMS to rural hospitals.

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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jun 1, 2015

This is going to be an incredible hindrance for these hospitals to provide medical care in rural areas of West Virginia.

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David McKinley
@davidmckinley· Republican · WV· Jun 1, 2015

I think it is important to set realistic targets and goals that do push us to improvement.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 21, 2015

Senator, if you do see something, let's say, as the bill unfolds and comes to its completion, that you really think is going to harm the people of Utah, you are not going to have any input to change that harm. And it is only going to take…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 21, 2015

He let everybody see it months ahead of time before he was granted the fast-track authority. He never even asked for TPA until he released it. And I am sure that you were in the majority at the time, and everyone had to support that…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

So the bill that we have proposed before us, it is going to require declassification of FISA Court opinions containing significant legal interpretation, which is a positive thing.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

The bill that we will be considering is expanding the opportunity for the appellate review of the FISA Court decisions. I think and I can understand that you are saying they can get a FISA order no matter what.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

It is a good point in the bill that we will be considering, the 2015 FREEDOM Act. It expands the opportunity for the appellate review of the FISA Court decisions, which I think the Senator has had a problem with, too, because it has been…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

If the FREEDOM Act goes away and the way they are doing bulk collection, which we agree should be done away with--and we don't come to some agreement--are you concerned that we might be in more jeopardy by not having something in place…

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

There is serious concern that a failure to stand up in Moscow in Ukraine and elsewhere will invite Putin's adventurism in the Baltics--creating an Article 5 crisis for NATO.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

Sitting back and being reactive and then debating it for six months hoping for on-hundred percent consensus among 28 countries is not a formula for success with Vladimir Putin.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

The United States has made clear to Russia through political, diplomatic, economic, and defense measures that we do not accept Russia's aggressive foreign policy, and we will defend NATO and honor our Article 5 commitments.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

Can you give me--I understand that they're currently meeting in Saudi Arabia now, talking about all of these things that we're talking about right now.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

We have to have a much tougher, much stronger vetting process, or--they don't want to relax that at all.

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Joe Manchin
@joemanchin· Democratic · WV· May 20, 2015

Why hasn't the YPG [People's Protection Units] or the Syrian Kurds been involved in these talks?

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