Joe Manchin actually said...

"I think that's what the senator from Alaska--all of us--just work with us. We'll be the best partner you've ever had."

"I don't think that's correct. I don't think that's--the reason I say it's not correct--I don't think that anywhere else in the country that happens."

"As West Virginians, we have a lot of sympathy for Alaska trying to do all they can to provide energy for this great country and then being treated like a second class citizen."

"The only thing I'm saying is it doesn't look like the government is going to come forward in any type of an expedient manner to fix the environmental problem that they caused."