Joe Manchin actually said...

"But they are saying, why didn't you do this? Why wouldn't you have already been doing this?"

"So nobody is going to say it is safe. That is what I am hearing from everybody here."

"I can't imagine why we wouldn't have shut it down. That is common sense, that you shut down the system."

"Seeing this as a wakeup call, do you think that this should be considered the same as the national disaster?"