Joe Manchin: “If we continue along the current path of fiscal uncertainty we will be unable to avoid the consequences of a hollow…”

When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.

If we don't do permitting, and we don't have permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

The pledge is simply this: that you remain independent and not be part of the Democrat or Republican system.

We don't even have a budget anymore.