Joe Manchin actually said...

"I'm hopeful we'll have a proposal in the coming weeks that builds on the work, that fine work, done by the previous chairman, Jeff Bingaman, and the President's Blue Ribbon Commission."

"It's going to take everything that we have in this great country to become independent."

"As you know coming from the State of West Virginia, it's very important. But also it's important to the Nation."

"It's flatly unacceptable that the Department still has no viable plan for cleaning up hazardous waste on the bank of the Columbia River half a century after the contamination occurred."