Joe Manchin actually said...

"I cannot imagine that people would stand by and deliberately hurt this country in terms of our national defense by letting this take place."

"There's going to have to be reform and have to be revenue and there has to be cuts in spending, and everyone has to participate."

"I would appreciate a staff-level update on those forces and their response times. Would you arrange that staff update in the next 3 weeks?"

"General Dempsey, on the Interagency Security Assessment Teams (ISAT) that visited 19 high-threat diplomatic posts, what new roles in diplomatic security are being contemplated for DOD to assume moving..."