Joe Manchin actually said...

"I think it was an opportunity to address the entitlement issue, reform the tax code, make swift progress in balancing the Federal budget or at least moving in that right direction."

"Instead of taking steps to extract new domestic energy from our tremendous resource base, the Administration has decided to again, try to extract $40 billion from the consumers of oil and gas and coal..."

"I have some heartburn with the decision to reduce the funding for renewable water power."

"The President's repeated emphasis on withdrawal, without laying out what would constitute a successful and sustainable transition, has only fed the belief in Afghanistan that the United States is comm..."