Joe Manchin actually said...

We go to such extraordinary lengths to protect the lives of our people, and yet by compromising readiness, by compromising morale, by compromising modernization, by compromising training, that is the inevitable result.

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Manchin emphasizes the risks to American lives due to budget compromises.

01/27/2015

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