Joe Manchin actually said...

If we accept it, we're not fulfilling our responsibility under the Constitution to provide for the common defense.

Warns against accepting the budget recommendation as it fails constitutional obligations.

02/13/2012

More Joe Manchin Quotes

If I was capable of bringing some people together on both sides and says, listen, let's sit down and talk about what we think, that we could...

We are not holding anything hostage. We are voting to pay our bills.

If we are assuming that could happen, and maybe it could be the consumers, okay.

Some of these other countries where an awful lot of the minerals come from are not in the EU.