09/14/2011
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"He said today that he does not want to sign on to support this sweeping voting-rights bill that will afford federal protection to voting rights."
"Joe Manchin's actual public position right now is that he cares more about what politicians in other states do than what his own constituents support."
"The modern Republican Party has no interest in contributing its ideas to legislation that's going to be passed by Joe Biden. Its only idea is to make sure that Joe Biden fails."
"Pushing through legislation of this magnitude on a partisan basis may garner short term benefits, but will inevitably only exacerbate the distrust that millions of Americans harbor against the U.S. go..."