Joe Manchin

How do you all categorize and pick the ones you think are most effective because we do not want to lose any.

Because you do have some say in Medicaid. You don't have any say in Medicare, but in Medicaid you're doing this.

When I was Governor, I always felt that if we could connect, if we were providing for Medicaid and also Medicare, should be connected, real time.

Doctors are handing it out like candy, and we've changed that from Schedule 3 to Schedule 2 and opiates.

Two million Americans are addicted to prescription opiates. An estimated 6.5 million Americans currently abuse some sort of prescription drug.

In 2007, West Virginia, our state, became part of the rural health care pilot program.

Everything in that green there shows over half of our state qualifies for underserved, and we're not getting services.

We are not talking about it. We are not doing anything about it.

It is the number 1 killer in my State. It comes out of the medicine cabinet.

The opiate road is horrific, not just in the VA, but all through society.

There have to be alternatives, and I know you must see it with all of the women you are dealing with.

We are addicting a generation of our veterans, I do not think intentionally.

I have a tremendous problem in the State of West Virginia is prescription drug abuse.

While the nationwide veteran homeless rate has dropped by 33 percent since 2010, we still have nearly 50,000 veterans without a home.

The VA is committed to ending veteran homelessness by 2015.

I am deeply concerned that the lack of unity of government and deteriorating situation in Libya has created a safe haven for militias and terrorist organization.

I urge you to favorably consider it.

I fully support the President's proposed AUMF to counter the Islamic State of Iraq in Levant, or ISIL.

We want to make sure that we are able to do the job you need for our country, and we need somebody to help rattle the cages with us.

These forecasts have not been that far off in the past, yet no one seems to be heeding your forecast warnings of what we are going to be facing as a country.

And you do not need any fossil whatsoever. We will find a way to make it, trust me.

To properly reflect the energy security benefits of combined CTL, basically with EOR, enhanced oil recovery, it seems to me it would make good strategic sense for us as a country to where we have these oil productions now.

They're never going to carry the load, and we know that.

The only thing I would ask you is this, sir. The aging of traditional electric base loads, the aging of these plants of coal and nuclear since they have been demonized and beaten the living crap out of.

But why in the world are we beating it to death and making it so impossible to produce the energy the country needs?