Joe Manchin actually said...

"I want now to touch on Chairman Wheeler's latest proposal to free consumers from having to pay annoying and excessive monthly rental fees for set-top boxes."

"There is no enforcement, no policing. There is no retribution."

"I cannot figure why that condition was even put in if it was not intended to be kept or met."

"But if they are basically able to just neglect that, thinking we are going to do all the heavy lifting..."