Joe Manchin

I agree with you, General Kelly, that our approach to Central America requires a sustained multiyear commitment similar to what we pursued under Plan Colombia.

How do you plan on holding leaders accountable to make sure your Service is ready for a full financial statement audit by the end of fiscal year 2017?

We are either going to be sequester-based and ignore every bit of reality that has occurred since August 2011.

The people in West Virginia are willing to spend their taxes and invest their taxes into the defense of this country.

Eisenhower said beware of the military-industrial complex.

Every time we hear about reduction in force, it is always on our frontline.

The rapid rise, as far as in their--when we first heard about ISIS, it was 3-, 5,000, then it just seemed to leapfrog to 10-, 15-, 20-, and 30-.

I'm understanding they're accelerating very fastly. You said they're impressive.

I don't think our agreement's going to achieve that.

Are we having any success in shutting down that money flow?

As you might know, West Virginia is proud to be the third most forested state in the nation, close to 80 percent of the entire state is forested.

Importantly 87 percent of our forest land is privately owned while only 13 percent is publicly owned.

Senator Murkowski, in your state we're working with some of your communities to provide that upfront money to be able to do the design to be able to put facilities into place so that we can use this renewable energy.

What type of research and development would affect, let's say states in the Northeast, West Virginia, maybe out West too?

Timber production from these forests are critical to our state's economy, but they are equally important for providing the clean water, outdoor recreation, hunting, fishing and all the other uses that we enjoy.

I sent a letter with Senator Ayotte to ICANN expressing some concerns about the expansion of the top level domain names.

The Commercial Crew Program is critical to restoring this capability.

There is no limit to human imagination or for the desire for exploration.

It is imperative that America has the capability to get to the International Space Station without the assistance of the Russians.

America should have the capability to launch a rescue mission to the Space Station should that prove necessary and without being dependent on the Russians.

America has always led the way in space exploration, and we need to reclaim that leadership.

We do not want to go back to sequester.

To suggest that you are going to be able to count on the Coast Guard to establish some kind of a base there in Cold Bay to provide for Medevac service is not realistic.

Fourteen months have now gone by, and we do not have anything in the budget to address it, as you have promised you would do.

They see a direct threat right now on their futures and livelihood as it relates to these regulations we are seeing, not coming from the DOE, but more so from the EPA.