Joe Manchin: “About half of the budget of the Office of Fossil Energy and in DOE on the President's energy efficiency initiative…”

There’s a lot of young, aggressive, good people with good intentions that love the country and have the youth and vigor to do it, and I’m going to be looking for those people.

Let me just say that I think what happened is we have a bill that is hard to vote against. It really is. And I understand why there were 73 Senators who voted for it. Senator Cruz has had this and worked diligently for many years on this…

We’re trying to get a person who can be committed to — and totally committed to – being an independent with an independent voice.

I will make my political decision in December, whatever it may be.