Joe Manchin actually said...

Joe Manchin, another Democrat who's not up for reelection but is from a very conservative state, West Virginia, he is going to release legis...

the harm from default would take not just a short term to recover from, but I think it could take a decade to recover from.

It is just irresponsible to not deal with the underlying problem that gives rise to the need for all of this debt.

let us stop lurching from one manufactured crisis to another manufactured crisis and stop threatening to default on the Nation's obligations