Joe Manchin actually said...

"We keep all those who are serving in our thoughts and prayers every day."

"You must deliver me a weapons system that meets each and every one of the system spec requirements."

"We're being joined by Senator Blumenthal and we appreciate having him here."

"If we had the ability to put those cuts in the areas that we thought we could most handle the risk and take the force structure adjustments that we needed to, I think that would be certainly a benefit..."