Joe Manchin

the discontinuation of the WVPRC gives me great concern that the unique issues facing WV and Appalachia will be greatly diminished going forward.

It is not an understatement to say this has been an unmitigated disaster caused by an inexcusable failure of leadership.

The last time the NLRB tried this, a study found that this policy led to 376,000 fewer jobs and $33.3 billion in lost output across the economy.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

Sir, I thank you for your service. I just want to say again on Jessie's Law that has been a long time in coming, okay, and the family they are just hanging on, needles and pins, just waiting for it to be completed. They want to save lives…

I hope to, again, work in a bipartisan way to fund our joint priorities.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

This Administration's student debt cancellation programs undermine these programs and force hard-working taxpayers to shoulder the cost.

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that take commonsense steps to fill the gaps in our workforce.

We have to--you are in the Education Department, you have to educate people on what is available.

I want to thank Chair Baldwin for working together, bipartisan, and the success of our process depends on finding common ground.

Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?

I am 100% supportive of that goal as studies show patients treated at NCI-Designated Cancer Centers have higher survival and recovery rates.

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

The last time NLRB tried this study, a study found that the policy led to 376,000 fewer jobs and $33 billion in lost output across the economy.

This will be a challenging funding year as Chair Baldwin aligned that out.

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

We simply cannot afford to add another $750 billion to the national debt.

FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.

We are spending more on giving money away than we ever did on education. It makes no sense to me at all.

We have lost more Americans to drug overdoses since 1999 than the number of American lives lost in wars or conflicts since the Civil War, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.

I acknowledge we are facing a very difficult spending climate, and we hope we can focus on bipartisan areas of need.