Joe Manchin

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

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.

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.

We want to start building things again in America.

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 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…

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 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…

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.

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

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

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

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

That's an alarming rate.

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

A lot of the States have basically their own controls, their oversights, their ombudsmens, things of this sort.

Failure cannot be -- cannot be accepted.

Failure should not be an option.

Access to public land is vital for the economic health and character of my state.

I think you can carry back and tell him that there's great concern on both sides.

The mere assertion that some people 'freak out' about gun rights isn't enough of a reason to alter the Constitution.

I would encourage you to take back to the Secretary the request to put this on hold, to pull this order until we can all work together on it and see if there is more efficiencies to be gained.

We were never consulted about this. Not the least bit were we ever contacted and say, Guess what might happen.

I do not take restriction of 2nd Amendment rights lightly.

If you want to work with us, you ought to put your order on hold right now and tell the Secretary to hold up and let's work together.