Joe Manchin: “Secretary Donley, please provide the approximate number of contractors the Air Force presently has in its inventory.”

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.

West by God Virginia. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Blessed be West Virginia. ____________________

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

We have accumulated the greatest amount of debt in the history of our country in the shortest period of time.