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Joe Manchin

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Joe Manchin is a United States Senator from West Virginia, serving since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010. Manchin is known for his centrist approach and has often positioned himself as a bridge between moderate Democrats and Republicans in the Senate. His legislative focus includes issues such as infrastructure, energy policy, and healthcare.

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Apr 15, 2024

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

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Apr 10, 2024

I rise today, and I agree with my friend and my colleague from Indiana Senator Braun, my friend and my colleague from Louisiana Senator Cassidy, and my friend and my colleague from Kansas Senator Marshall. I rise today in support of the…

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Apr 10, 2024

I did not intend to speak on Secretary Mayorkas, but I want to say a few words before I get to the content of my speech. What I would say is that I respectfully disagree with my colleagues and my friends on the Republican side of the aisle…

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Mar 22, 2024

I rise today in support of amendment No. 1725, which will be called up later. My amendment is with Senator Crapo of Idaho, my dear friend. I want to speak a little bit about the EVs-- electric vehicles--and the tailpipe emissions rule that…

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Mar 21, 2024

I rise today in recognition of National Inland Waterways Workers Safety Awareness Day and to honor the life of Gabe White, a young West Virginian who lost his life far too soon. Gabe was a deckhand, a Boy Scout, a graduate of Gilmer County…

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Mar 5, 2024

I want Joe Biden to be the Joe Biden I've known all these years, always being a centrist, center left a little bit, but always center, someone who makes the deal and he's made some great things happen.

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Mar 5, 2024

I would love to see him basically acknowledge that we have more - we're producing more energy today. We're more energy secure than we've ever been in the history of our country.

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Mar 5, 2024

Absolutely. Take executive action on the border. Shut that border down. Secure that border.

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Mar 5, 2024

Fifty-five to 60 percent of Americans, John, are center-left, center-right. They're right here. That's where all the decisions and dealmaking is made. And that's where compromise is.

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Mar 5, 2024

If the election were today or tomorrow, Trump would win, in my view.

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Feb 27, 2024

I think you are doing a great job, and I appreciate it.

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Feb 27, 2024

I want to see if it would be a bill that the Committee here would entertain to work with Mr. Quinn.

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Feb 27, 2024

I would like to submit to the Committee to see if the Committee would like to sponsor this bill with all of us, in a bipartisan way, if that would be accepted.

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Feb 27, 2024

If you have attended any of these funerals in some of the harshest, inclement weather, it is unbelievable.

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Jan 14, 2024

It's not going to happen from the extremes. But we're playing off of the extremes. That's what people are just worn out. Enough is enough.

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Jan 14, 2024

We cannot fix it in Washington. It won't be fixed, because the business model.

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Jan 14, 2024

If you're going to get – it's – it's the character of the person you send to Washington, who you're voting for and within your state or your district, and if that person has the character to where they put – they put their country before…

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Jan 14, 2024

America is between the center, center-left, center-right. That's where most of the voters are.

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Jan 14, 2024

People just want to know the truth. You know, if you made a mistake, say, hey, we made a mistake, we tried something, and it didn't work out.

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Jan 14, 2024

They need to come back to the center or center-left. That's where America is.

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Dec 14, 2023

just briefly, I want to correct one thing that was said. Because of the 117th Congress, when we all worked together, today we are producing more energy than ever in the history of the United States. We are producing 4.6 billion barrels of…

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Dec 14, 2023

I also rise to join my friend from Wyoming Senator Barrasso and my friend from Ohio. And I know that my friend from Texas has some concerns, but it is something different. The only thing I would say about this is, as troubled as our House…

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Dec 13, 2023

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination: Calendar No. 108, Nickolas Guertin, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Navy; that the Senate vote on the nomination without…

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Dec 5, 2023

I rise today, I can say, out of frustration, out of anger, out of disappointment that our administration is continuing to break the law that we all passed and that President Biden signed, knowing full well what was in it. I am talking…

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Nov 25, 2023

He is not ruling it out. He's supposed to do a listening tour of some states in the coming months, but that hasn't also been announced yet.

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