Joe Manchin actually said...

"Tell us how we can help you from this end of the table simplify the process that we all want."

"What are you able to do without us? What are you able to do and you believe that you have the authority to do without us?"

"If you want to start and find out if it works or not, that would be the place to come, because that is where our greatest challenges are."

"The hardest thing that I had--and I'll finish up with this--the hardest that I had is that, basically, we had contractors of--fighting, basically, on the front lines."