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Joe Manchin: I said, well, what is the correct? Do we have one, two, three, four? What -- how many? What is it? We just don't know…

On the recordJanuary 4, 2006
I said, well, what is the correct? Do we have one, two, three, four? What -- how many? What is it? We just don't know for sure, is what I was told. And I said, we have got to get -- we have got to be for sure on this.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Joe Manchin expresses the urgency to confirm the status of the miners after receiving conflicting information.

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