Joe Manchin actually said...

"I'm just saying, just having control over our own destiny. We have no control over global pricing of oil."

"I don't know how anyone who has even the slightest understanding of economics can believe that by increasing the cost, namely the taxes, that you will somehow lower the price to the consumer."

"We always say you have to drive to survive in West Virginia. So you can only imagine the hardship it's putting on people."

"How in the world if we absolutely prohibited speculation in America, put a 25 year sentence, mandatory, on anybody who engaged in speculation in the price. How would you stop that from happening in an..."