Joe Manchin actually said...

It is hard to go home and explain why we would be exporting when, basically, the prices here can be so volatile.

Sooner or later we are going to have to use the resources we have not to be dependent on foreign oil.

I support it wholeheartedly. It moves it strategically and also gives the President a chance to use a trigger and basically stop the export ...

We are going to have to have an energy policy here that does not make us more dependent on foreign oil.