Joe Manchin

That doesn't make sense to us as Americans why we would lose more jobs because of our high cost of manufacturing when we don't have the proven technology.

So CCS is about the only viable option that we have right now?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. To all of you, thank you for being here.

Here's my concern. We're competing with all these manufacturing, these Third World developing countries, whether it be China coming on so strong taking most of our jobs, if you will.

the U.S. Senate has also not agreed to or been consulted on unilateral nuclear reductions.

the U.S. Senate did not consent to a goal of disarmament.

the United States must have a strong deterrence that is effective in meeting its security needs and those of its allies.

the administration may be on the verge of abandoning that approach, opting instead for a nuclear weapons policy focused on unilateral reductions.

I think we're talking about putting fairness to the system, as it needed it, at certain prices.

If the U.S. fails to enact CEDA and regain the lead in clean energy technology deployment, we will likely see U.S. innovators take their promising technologies abroad.

It's not going to go because of the return on investment. Basically, if the market's not there and the price is so high, we're going to keep plowing money in for something that's never going to be competitive.

Thank you all. I thank all 4 of you for your presentations.

It seems one size fits all and when prices are $100 a barrel or $75 a ton of coal or $14 an mcf, the credits just keep marching right on.

In a time when we're looking to be more--less dependent on foreign oil, it seems like that was an unwise move.

So we've got to continue to give it tax-supported money to make them viable?

It just seems to me that, with the dependency that we have on fossil--in West Virginia we do a little bit of everything.

I can tell you that credits on thin seam coal or the credits on tight sands for drilling basically when it goes to $12 and $14 an mcf might not still be needed.

I can't again overemphasize the sense of urgency I feel and my commitment to doing everything possible to change what's in effect is an internal intra-government set of regulations that hamstrings us from all of the potential advances in…

The Independent Payment Advisory Board was not a death panel. It is not about rationing care.

The donut hole... will be gradually filled in over time so that we will never again have seniors who cannot afford their medications.

I am disturbed and troubled that there are those who would destroy our basic democratic principles for their own political aggrandizement.

I thank you very much.

We cannot let them live and die in poverty. We owe them the final days of security and dignity.

But we now face a stark choice as to how to do that, and that choice will have a profound effect on seniors today, but also the seniors of tomorrow.

I want to recognize the work that Senator Whitehouse has been doing consistently to try to get Medicare and Medicaid to be better purchasers of things like health information technology, of primary care, the things that we know work, as…