Joe Manchin actually said...

Congress specifically extended whistleblower protection to contractors in 2009 and those protections remain in place today.

The United States has a strategic interest in helping Iraq build a sovereign, stable, self-reliant country with a representative government ...

We share key interests with the Iraqis in the security realm, including reducing the threat from violent extremists such as the Islamic Stat...

I strongly support the Leahy law, and I am aware that the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of State strongly support it also.