Joe Manchin: “I ask permission to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.”

It's broken. It needs to be fixed.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5301 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will…

I will make my political decision in December, whatever it may be.

Let me just say that I think what happened is we have a bill that is hard to vote against. It really is. And I understand why there were 73 Senators who voted for it. Senator Cruz has had this and worked diligently for many years on this…