Joe Manchin actually said...

"You're already funding--we already fund the military academies. We already paid once."

"To Dr. Prabhakar, one of the joys of being a Senator is being able to nominate some of the best and brightest to our military academies."

"I want to make it fairly obvious that we must have a Lifeline program that helps low-income Americans obtain access to broadband in order for them to participate in today's digital economy."

"I remain concerned about the parts of West Virginia--more than 12,000 locations--that will still find themselves on the wrong side of the digital divide."