Joe Manchin: “I would like to submit to the Committee to see if the Committee would like to sponsor this bill with all of us, in a…”

I truly believed that, if in power, Republicans would uphold the filibuster, the last guardrail preventing total partisan rule.

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.

She's an American senator that represents her state of Maine ... the most independent minded person I've ever met.