Joe Manchin

We have to take that stuff head on.

As you all have observed sometimes we're not always on the same page here as far as elected officials.

We are defending our country. We are making our country more solid.

If there's a trigger mechanism then the domestic retailers, the domestic customer, you and I, can still benefit from a lower price because of the heavy production.

In West Virginia, it would be hard for me to explain to the people to grasp the whole world market.

I think it should be pretty easy to get a better understanding.

That's what maximizes competition. That's what brings the best prices back to the United States.

Can anybody on the other side here explain why we're still importing so much and how we would go home and explain to well, now we have to export?

There's a win/win here. We just got to find it.

Today, broadband is an essential service, and, I believe, we are falling woefully short of our statutory mandate in the 21st century with respect to broadband.

America has been committed to the ideal of universal service for over a century.

I wish to applaud your leadership and that of Senators McCaskill, Markey, King, and Wyden, in introducing the Community Broadband Act of 2015.

I am proud that the FCC has drawn a line in the sand in favor of local choice to ensure that municipalities have the right to decide whether or not to deploy broadband networks.

I have a pretty good world right now. Can I make it better without throwing the baby out with the bathwater and losing the protections that I've got?

I think we're on the same wavelength.

You know, when you look at the GDP of China, China is at 9 trillion; Russia is at 2 trillion; Great Britain is at 2 trillion. We're at 17-plus trillion.

This is such an interesting topic and you know I keep thinking back to those who are old enough or grew up basically before there was mobile phones, cell phones, Internet, computers.

The underpinning of broadband policy today is that competition is the most effective tool for driving innovation, investment, and consumer and economic benefits.

It would be accurate for me to evaluate saying that the system that we have right now, the way we're operating the Internet right now, is giving us the access and protection that we need.

So basically, with all that being said, you know in a rural area, rural states, we're a little bit leery of how much better you want to make it for us.

The FCC's recent action accomplished the exact opposite. Rather than exercising regulatory humility, the three majority Commissioners chose to take the most radical, polarizing, and partisan path possible.

I believe there should be clear rules for the digital road with clear authority for the FCC to enforce them.

I am appalled that a corporate giant which itself does not have a single wireless customer has attempted to use small business discounts to box out the very companies that Congress intended the program to benefit and to rip off American…

Simply put, your actions jeopardize the open Internet that we are all seeking to protect.

The American people deserve no less.