Joe Manchin

I think the people in West Virginia will support--we will maintain to make sure that we're able to prevent that from happening again from that part of the world.

Afghanistan is a troubling place. And I hear a lot from the constituents, back in West Virginia.

If there's anybody that can turn Afghanistan around and their economy around, it's going to be President Ghani.

I have a hard time--you know, with the dependency they have on the United States and our presence there...

Does it not bother you that DOD can't even identify the types of jobs and the people they need for those jobs?

I am very concerned about the way the negotiations have proceeded.

I want a roll call vote.

But, it's been 13 years, the Guantanamo five haven't been.

I think their attack on this country, they lost their rights, as far as their attacking this country.

I would not ask anybody's children to be in that position, guarding in that type of a condition there, because I'm seeing the abuse that the prisoners have on our guards.

What is the plan for the dozens of detainees that the Administration's own internal review categorized as those that we are incapable of trying but who are too dangerous for release?

Instead of providing answers to these and other questions, which we have consistently sought, what we now have instead is the perception of a President rushing to fulfill a political promise.

What does is $3 million per detainee and $80,000 to the hardened prisons we have.

The Obama administration has offered no comprehensive plan to responsibly close the Guantanamo detention facility.

Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. I am so sorry because we've got two or three meetings going on.

I know they want to, but when they know that it is not going to cost them anything when it is breached...

I want to thank you all for your service and also being here and helping us through these most difficult situations.

I am just saying the innovative and creative ideas will come if you make me responsibility and hold me liable.

It is pretty simple. Who pays? Who did wrong and who pays?

The West Virginia National Guard is partnering with the University of Charleston and the Blue Ridge Technical College on a cyber training program.

The military is the thing that keeps us united as a Nation, if you will, but also it is the one that keeps us in a bipartisan effort.

The debt of this Nation is the greatest threat that we face.

But, do you think we have--I'm so sorry, sir, because my time is running--but, do you think we have a problem with getting the Sunnis the will to fight in that area?

What's your feelings about a three-state solution in Iraq, versus trying to continue to keep a one-state Baghdad solution to the problem that we have over there?

I don't know if you have an opinion on that, if you would like to see those who work--or, if you worked in a recruitment office, would you want to have government-issue arms to protect yourself?