Joe Manchin actually said...

"I think the most important thing I've got out of this whole discussion is that basically the only leverage we have is companies that are doing business in American waters."

"The Subcommittee believes that the environmental aspects of shale gas development are appropriate subjects for federal research and development work."

"However we cannot depend on jobs that destroy other's lives and livelihoods."

"Mountaineers will never be free until this madness ends. Reinstate the stream buffer zone rule to at least the Regan Era Rule and (for the first time in history) enforce it to protect American lives f..."