Joe Manchin: “the rural areas do not get their proportion of shares.”

We need to do permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.

I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate completes its business today, it stand adjourned until 10 a.m. on Thursday, December 12; that following the prayer and pledge, the Journal of proceedings be approved to date, the morning hour be…

They’re the kind of the centrist Democrats you need.

Listen, this is not normal. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And we shouldn’t be hating each other.