Joe Manchin: “Seeing this as a wakeup call, do you think that this should be considered the same as the national disaster?”

If we don't do permitting, and we don't have permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs be discharged from further consideration of H.R. 5301 and the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will…

We got a runaway debt. We got inflation that's killing people. We've got an unsecured energy. We have a border that's out of control.

Lets put some respect back in and the dignity and decorum in the life of this great country of ours, lets be Americans first and put the -- put the country before the party.