Joe Manchin actually said...

"let us stop lurching from one manufactured crisis to another manufactured crisis and stop threatening to default on the Nation's obligations"

"the harm from default would take not just a short term to recover from, but I think it could take a decade to recover from."

"It is just irresponsible to not deal with the underlying problem that gives rise to the need for all of this debt."

"The average American at the pump has not seen relief every time that we do have this energy independence."