Joe Manchin: “I know there's been a lot going back and forth--if you'd have had the flexibility... would you have been able to deploy…”

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

They better figure out how they lost moderate, centrist, fiscally responsible, socially compassionate.

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…

If we don't do permitting, and we don't have permitting reform in America, we're not going to meet the challenges and be energy-independent.