Joe Manchin: “There is an overwhelming bipartisan recognition that our current permitting system is not working.”

It's broken. It needs to be fixed.

I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my friend, Senator Cruz from Texas. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Ossoff). Without objection, it is so ordered. H.R. 82

Listen, this is not normal. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And we shouldn’t be hating each other.

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.