Joe Manchin actually said...

"I have never been entirely comfortable with that dependency, and we have looked at in the budget process options a couple of times to try to do something to remove that dependency."

"What we might think about is changing the law and, carte blanche across all the agencies of the Federal Government, pick a selected pilot project through DOD or Department of Transportation, whatever ..."

"If we could evaluate what the needs were and with a real-time budget request, then if you over-performed to where you did it less than what we thought it would take, you kept 50 percent of the savings..."

"I strongly suggest, General and Madam Secretary, that it would be prudent for the Air Force to consider keeping these aircraft at Keesler in order to provide the best value to the warfighter and the t..."