Joe Manchin actually said...

"I give Chuck Schumer who’s controlling the calendar all the credit for allowing it to go back in the committees, being worked the way it’s supposed to, come to the floor with amendments and Republican..."

"There’s a need in both. There’s social adjustments we need to make to help working families survive and prosper and maybe attain that American dream. It should never be an American dream that has died..."

"the filibuster as a tool for compromise. One can debate when that was true. It`s certainly not true now. So, the residual language there is that, no, it`s not a moderating device. It`s not a compromis..."

"We have a package that meets the needs of the 21st century and I think it`s a tremendous opportunity for us to show the rest of the world we can still get big things done in a bipartisan way."