Joe Manchin actually said...

"I would assume that you all think that would be a job creator for America if we built it through, into America?"

"I have a hard time understanding why this has become a political football. It makes so much common sense that you want to buy off of your friends and not your enemies."

"If in anybody's budget, if we see a spike in reimbursements--requests for reimbursements, that should alarm that something's wrong."

"The only thing that bothers me more than anything is that--how much fraud, abuse, and waste that goes on in the whole system."