Joe Manchin actually said...

"It is important to the country, with all due respect, because you are not going to find, I mean, there is still going to be, in my state, we produce an awful lot of fossil which is coal, natural gas."

"We are going to be using coal for quite some time, not to the extent that we have, but we will use it and we need it, but you have to find different ways of using it."

"It is hard to recruit good people to be involved in public service today."

"What do we do with Yucca Mountain? What can we use it for? We own it. We have invested into it."