Joe Manchin

I understand there are three measures at the desk. I ask for their first reading en bloc. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the measures by title for the first time. The legislative clerk read as follows: A bill (S. 1050) to…

I rise today to speak about the importance of getting our young people involved in our electoral process and to highlight a West Virginia school with a standout record for going the extra mile to encourage students to register and…

Conservative groups across the county have said national security demands that we do this.

We need to find more American energy and use less.

The only solution is to find more and use less and this is the way to use less.

I rise this afternoon to address the Offshore Production and Safety Act. It is legislation that attempts to address the regulation and the critical need to drill for oil in this country. Let me tell you, I understand the frustration from…

It's a billion dollars cheaper. It is an authorization bill.

The President voiced his support for a lease extension with respect to Gulf of Mexico wells that were directly impacted by the events of the Deepwater Horizon last year.

We are moving forward with holding annual lease sales in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.

I don't think any private concern is going to be able to do that without kind of a quasi public-private.

Again, the frustration that Senator Landrieu had is that, basically, we are just concerned about our dependency on foreign oil.

We learned nothing. We have no energy policy. We are still more dependent than ever.

Until we have an energy policy that uses the energy that we can produce, that has more certainty and more dependability within this Nation or this continent, we are going to continue to go down this for the next 30 to 40 years.

The President announced that we would be holding 3 lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico by June 30th of next year.

The frustration is, is that the bureaucracy is it is not getting acted on.

We believe that with flexibility... we could reduce lease terms and, therefore, incentivize a more rapid development of oil and gas.

I think that would be very bad public policy.

In order to do that, we have to be more certain of what we can do in this country and less dependent on the foreign oil that I think they are holding us hostage with.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the nomination of Michael Francis Urbanski, of…

But basically you all agree that the Federal Government has taken a position, everything stops, nothing happens unless CCS is implemented.

Would it be a fair statement to say that we don't have the technology in place to basically that would handle the CCS, if you will, carbon capture whether it's the storage or the--have we come close to finding any technology that would be…

But the reality is is the Federal Government is not giving any permits. We're not expanding. You can't build anything. You can't do a thing.

I rise to speak about an issue that is directly impacting each and every family, not just in West Virginia but throughout this whole country. It is the high gas prices. The truth is, in States all across this Nation, and particularly in…

his belief is that CCS is not a fully-developed, commercially-available technology and, yet, EPA regulations are requiring permit applicants for coal-fired generating units to employ CCS

You're saying new coal fired plants without CCS is being built?