Joe Manchin actually said...

"If we stay on the present course, I fear the FCC's actions to promote set-top box competition would be tied up in court and hamstrung for years."

"I want now to touch on Chairman Wheeler's latest proposal to free consumers from having to pay annoying and excessive monthly rental fees for set-top boxes."

"There is no enforcement, no policing. There is no retribution."

"I cannot figure why that condition was even put in if it was not intended to be kept or met."