Joe Manchin: “My hope is that the Federal Government will listen to our concerns.”

Let me just say that I think what happened is we have a bill that is hard to vote against. It really is. And I understand why there were 73 Senators who voted for it. Senator Cruz has had this and worked diligently for many years on this…

We need to do permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

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.

The brand got so bad, the D brand has been so maligned from the standpoint of it's just -- it's toxic.