Joe Manchin

Something is wrong, sir, desperately wrong. I just cannot even believe it.

I do not know how the growing reliance that DOD has--how you choose to deploy your resources.

I appreciate your all being here.

I beg to differ with you, sir. They are.

It makes common sense to me as an American, which I think we all love our military and we are so appreciative of what they do, that given the choice between the soldier and an overpaid contractor performing the same mission, that I would…

I recently met with the National Guardsmen who say that a contractor knowingly exposed them to sodium dichromate in Iraq.

I had the enormous privilege to spend the last 2 weeks traveling around my great State to hear from the people of West Virginia. It is always so refreshing to get a dose of commonsense from people who are working hard every day to balance…

I rise today first of all to thank the senior Senator, my friend Senator Rockefeller, for nominating such a qualified jurist upon the passing of our dear friend, Judge Blane Michael. Stephanie Dawn Thacker is a native of Hamlin, WV. We are…

It's not going to have any impact because you won't be able to see production on line for a period of 8, 10 years under a best case scenario.

We know we can do it. We have the technology, but this agency, EPA, the Administration, will not help us move in that direction.

We always say you have to drive to survive in West Virginia. So you can only imagine the hardship it's putting on people.

We couldn't even get a bill passed here to use alternative fuels for our military which makes no sense at all.

I'm just saying, just having control over our own destiny. We have no control over global pricing of oil.

I don't know how anyone who has even the slightest understanding of economics can believe that by increasing the cost, namely the taxes, that you will somehow lower the price to the consumer.

How in the world if we absolutely prohibited speculation in America, put a 25 year sentence, mandatory, on anybody who engaged in speculation in the price. How would you stop that from happening in another country?

The expansion and professionalization of Afghan security forces allow us to recover the remaining 23,000 U.S. surge troops by this fall.

I too am honored to be able to rise today to speak of our dear friend Barbara Mikulski. So many good things have been said, so many accolades have been shared about what Barbara has done and what she means to all of us. I can only tell you…

This campaign has been long. It has been difficult, and it has been costly.

We know that we face long-term challenges as well.

President Karzai just endorsed the code of conduct that allows husbands to beat wives, encourages segregation of the sexes, reduces the rights of women in divorce cases.

I have serious reservations about the sustainability of the Afghan security forces.

Why do we continue to give this country more money for nation-building?

There have been more U.S. troops killed by our Afghan allies than by al Qaeda or the Taliban last month.

We should really be rebuilding America. We have so many needs in our country, rather than the money that we're spending in Afghanistan.

I just have a respectful disagreement on our mission there.