Joe Manchin actually said...

"I think you are doing a great job, and I appreciate it."

"I want to see if it would be a bill that the Committee here would entertain to work with Mr. Quinn."

"I would like to submit to the Committee to see if the Committee would like to sponsor this bill with all of us, in a bipartisan way, if that would be accepted."

"He is not ruling it out. He's supposed to do a listening tour of some states in the coming months, but that hasn't also been announced yet."