Joe Manchin actually said...

"If we are to continue to take advantage of the bountiful resources in our Gulf, we need these industries which form the ecosystem of support necessary to continue drilling in the Gulf."

"I have a hard time understanding why this has become a political football. It makes so much common sense that you want to buy off of your friends and not your enemies."

"I would assume that you all think that would be a job creator for America if we built it through, into America?"

"We want to start building things again in America."