Joe Manchin actually said...

"the fact that one of the biggest reasons I am hearing is because of a lack of resources, often small changes that could be being made that we are not investing."

"Until this deadly accident, you were able to do it before you put it back in service. It could have been done before and prevented the accident."

"the question in Congress has not been whether to extend the deadline, but rather how to extend the deadline."

"It looks like you all, for the sake of budget constraints, bottom line, profit margins, return on investments--is making decisions that basically should never have been made."