Joe Manchin

This is a circle that increasingly becomes untethered from any clear lines of accountability connecting policy, policymakers, and the American people.

The result ends up being a foreign policy that is made primarily within the executive branch bureaucracy and Washington insider circles.

For several decades, Congress, quite regrettably, in my opinion, has deliberately abdicated many of its constitutional responsibilities.

I would hope that Congress takes this threat seriously enough to hold serious investigations on what happened, how it happened, and, most importantly, how are we going to prevent it happening in the future.

This has got to go beyond partisanship, because this tool is not going away, this Russian effort is not going away.

If Russia, every 4 years, is allowed to come in and weigh in in our elections in the way that it did right now--this--in this election, we are going to be at a serious strategic disadvantage, going forward.

The challenge from the revisionist powers is increasing

We need to see... a clear repudiation of all that rhetoric

The next administration has a big hole to dig out of

The United States is not really going to be in this business of world-order upholding as it used to be

I worry that our edge is eroding to the point where the task of maintaining conventional deterrence in key theaters around the world is becoming difficult.

I believe urgency is important in this regard.

China's aggressive behavior towards its neighbors, and, in particular, its rapid land reclamation efforts in the South China Sea, are destabilizing.

The unlawful incursion of Russia into Ukraine should not be legitimized by the United States, and ongoing steps to shore up our deterrence posture in the region ought to be sustained and increased, and increased soon.

Vladimir Putin is no friend of the United States, and he clearly sees the long arc of history bending against the maintenance of an extensive Russian sphere of influence that acts as a break on democracy, civil society, and full economic…

I urged the President to impose sanctions and enforce them as a result of Iran's continued development of ballistic missiles.

On February 7, 2016, in response to the evolving threat posed by North Korea, the United States and South Korea made an Alliance decision to begin formal consultations regarding improvements to the alliance missile defense posture.

Disproportionately that mindset is still getting a disproportionate share of the funds.

Why has the FCC not seen fit for the money to go where the need is?

They must have missed my state completely.

Their life depends on and these communities depend on whether they have this service.

I will guarantee you they will not stay.

In the 2016 broadband progress report, the FCC determined that fixed and mobile broadband are not functional substitutes for one another.

We cannot afford to repeat that mistake, because the threats we face are real and the stakes are high for the lives of the Afghan people, for the stability of the region, and for the national security of the United States.

Right now, we have very little interaction.