Joe Manchin actually said...

"The universal service mandate means that Americans living in even the most rural and remote areas of the Nation must have access to comparable services available to those in urban communities."

"We do not have the market to drive the market forces out. That is where we are just dead in the water."

"And you want a war on poverty, you let us--you know, we get the people connected, they have got a chance to survive."

"I think that Senator Capito and I both--and she has worked so hard on this--but both of us understand being around our State."