But while we've made significant progress in assembling the infrastructure needed to manufacture these critical lithium-ion batteries domestically, we have yet to make similar investments in the production of the materials found inside these batteries.
Manchin points out the lack of investment in lithium production.
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The way the parties have weaponized the political process today, they make it impossible to have a 'D' or an 'R' next to your name and speak to the other side.
When you like both people and both sides, you can sit down with both sides, you can agree to disagree, you can try to find compromise and make things happen.
We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.
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