Joe Manchin: “And I think, you know, because they were just trying to survive, so the environment took a way, way far back seat.”

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5301 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will…

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

If we don't do permitting, and we don't have permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

There’s a lot of young, aggressive, good people with good intentions that love the country and have the youth and vigor to do it, and I’m going to be looking for those people.