Joe Manchin

General Grass, if confirmed, would you work to find a cost-effective solution that would allow National Guard units to retain the C-23?

I hope that you will advocate for actions that can limit the risk to our mission and increase our chances of success.

General Grass, the Army has proposed divesture of the C-23 Sherpa, a non-standard airlift platform that is used by National Guard units for critical Homeland security missions, and by our special forces units in combat.

The President's repeated emphasis on withdrawal, without laying out what would constitute a successful and sustainable transition, has only fed the belief in Afghanistan that the United States is committed to getting out regardless of…

General Grass, are you comfortable with the National Guard's ability to coordinate efforts and manpower with Federal agencies?

The recent storms that hit West Virginia left over a third of our State without power.

We've always been supportive of [foreign military sales] but I think we can up our game a little bit. . . . Maybe in some cases take a look at taking a little bit more risk than we've been willing to take in the past.

We want to start building things again in America.

Which country would benefit most if America does not build the pipeline and that product does not come?

I would assume that you all think that would be a job creator for America if we built it through, into America?

Security should be the most factor, I think, the main factor of what we should be concerned about.

I have a hard time understanding why this has become a political football. It makes so much common sense that you want to buy off of your friends and not your enemies.

The Keystone XL pipeline project, which would have provided both additional cross-border pipeline capacity and essential pipeline capacity from the Midwest to the Gulf Coast, has been rejected with no clear plan to move forward.

If we are to continue to take advantage of the bountiful resources in our Gulf, we need these industries which form the ecosystem of support necessary to continue drilling in the Gulf.

I have always been a firm believer that we should and must develop all of our domestic energy resources here at home to ensure our country more energy secure.

I rise today to mark a truly important day for my State, and indeed this entire nation. December 6 is National Miner's Day, a time when we stop to honor our nation's coal miners and remember those who have done so much to make this great…

I think we are very strong in support of the Bowles- Simpson, basically, the template that it laid out. It is the only one that is bipartisan. As you can see, it stayed bipartisan with the Senator and I, and it will remain bipartisan. It…

I say to my friend from Illinois, what he says is absolutely correct. We have so many people, especially in West Virginia and Illinois, who depend on Social Security. In fact, in West Virginia, for 62 percent of the people who receive…

I want to speak on these very strange days in Washington, in this Congress. This esteemed body's approval rating is at 9 percent, and I am having a hard time finding the 9 percent. It seems to me that the only thing we are working hard on…

If in anybody's budget, if we see a spike in reimbursements--requests for reimbursements, that should alarm that something's wrong.

The only thing that bothers me more than anything is that--how much fraud, abuse, and waste that goes on in the whole system.

This didn't happen overnight. This has been, I mean, you've seen the telltale signs for quite some time.

Let me just say, sir, it's really a shame in this great country, as much money as we spend on nursing home care, not to get a better quality of care for the people that are in need. It just really is non-excusable.

Are they trained? Have they been trained properly to look for the types of so-called over prescriptions or abuse that might go on?

Aren't the States doing more visitations than nursing homes than what you would say you are able to do?