Joe Manchin actually said...

"We have to have a cost of living, or COLA, no matter what you call it. ... But there has to be one that adequately takes into account the essential living costs of people that basically the majority o..."

"There is a place for Government, especially when it can shore up a market and improve the economy, the economic situation, without costing the taxpayers."

"There is nothing else on the marketplace."

"the Government is going to step to the plate."