Joe Manchin: “I wholeheartedly support your nomination and am very pleased to welcome you to our Committee.”

I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule.

She's an American senator that represents her state of Maine ... the most independent minded person I've ever met.

They don't believe in these extreme causes and going to the extreme mats and fighting each other and hating the other side.

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.