Joe Manchin actually said...

"Given the challenges that students, local businesses, and communities are facing, how can the Department justify cutting investments in programs that help students get good paying jobs that strengthen..."

"I urge you to again take a commonsense approach and offer these long-standing Upward Bound programs the opportunity to apply to continue to serve the students of West Virginia."

"As the Secretary of Education, it is your job to put the needs of students above bureaucratic red tape."

"We are going to hope that maybe somebody from your department would come to West Virginia and go through our department with them and explain that."