Joe Manchin

But, if we cannot control it in the military--and, if the VA, Medicaid, and Medicare would not be dispensing opiates like M&Ms...

It would create a plume that would likely stretch for 85 miles into Lake Huron and Lake Michigan in my state.

Simply unacceptable. We need to step that up immediately.

A pipeline break in the Great Lakes would be absolutely catastrophic.

I am still particularly concerned about future spills in the Great Lakes.

My concern is that it locks up nearly a million acres in various land conservation designations including wilderness.

I know that resolving the challenges associated with the management of the O and C lands is something that Senator Wyden is very committed to.

My bill, S. 1691, makes treating our forests the priority it needs to be.

Right now I see no higher priority for the Forest Service than treating our forests to make them healthy again.

Later on this year, I will be introducing the EUREKA Act, Ensuring Useful Research Expenditures is Key for Alzheimer's, EUREKA.

Unless we find a cure or a new drug therapy to halt the progression of this disease, treatment costs will continue to rise.

The 21st Century Cures legislation is a great move towards that, but it has to be better.

If you allow the FDA to continue to not be cooperative, continue to not be transparent, and continue to not be collaborative when it comes to biomarkers, you are going to see all this industry and all this intellectual property go outside…

I do not blame the FDA for being risk adverse, the way Congress treats them.

I appreciate the hard work Senator Toomey has put in. Our staffs have worked together. I wish to thank Chairman Alexander and Ranking Member Murray for their hard work on this. This young man from West Virginia, Jeremy Bell, was the victim…

I believe that if VA, Medicaid, and Medicare...did not go to prescribing opiates first, but as a last resort.

We commend Ranking Member Blumenthal and Senator Moran for their leadership on this important legislation.

If we can set the culture going in a different direction, maybe we can set the country going in a different direction.

We have got to look at how did we become the most addicted nation on earth.

While I think in every part of the country we are concerned, West Virginia has been hit very hard by opiates.

Why not pay for the service that would be needed that would not get them addicted?

We need to get these cars fixed. And we have been talking about this since last year.

This is deadly serious business. Just last Friday, we learned of the eighth death, southern California, conclusively tied to a defective Takata airbag.

This Senator is going to fight for additional funding for NHTSA, but there also has to be accountability.

That is why I introduced the Nicholas and Zachary Burt Memorial Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act.