Joe Manchin

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the Republican budget that was put out for discussion a few weeks ago, to me, absolutely breaks that promise for the future.

Well, if the Republicans win, you are going to have a good Medicare program, but not me.

First of all, health reform, national health reform does not cut benefits for seniors.

Buried within the Affordable Care Act was something called the Independent Payment Advisory Board that was a panel of independent experts, not part of Congress, not part of Health and Human Services.

when I was Governor of West Virginia, we grappled over the budget like every State, every Governor and every legislature, every senator and every delegate. But when the deadline arrived, people came together and we did our job--Democrats…

I, too, rise in congratulating the Senator from North Dakota on his maiden speech. I have known then- Governor Hoeven for quite some time. His wife and my wife have been very good friends. What you heard is basically a background of the…

I commend Senator Harkin's efforts to address these issues in S. 187, the Biofuels Market Expansion Act of 2011.

Putting in place a consistent, long-term federal policy for advanced and cellulosic biofuels is critical to continued development.

Senator Murkowski and I authored a piece of legislation in the last Congress to address those policy challenges through the creation of a Clean Energy Deployment Administration.

I know Senator Coons is very focused on this set of issues too and will be actively involved in the questions as we get into the hearing.

I'm concerned somewhat about the danger of over shooting the mark on maximizing E-85 infrastructure because I'm hoping that infrastructure compatible drop in fuels such as algae based biocrude and biobutanol would emerge to fill much of…

Thank you for including Senate bill S.187, the Biofuels Market Expansion Act of 2011, among the discussion topics for this hearing.

I introduced this bill, along with Senators Johnson, Klobuchar, and Franken, on the very first legislative day of this Congress to highlight its importance.

I thank my good friend for his hard work. We are working in a bipartisan manner. ____________________

I rise to mark the tragic occasion of the worst U.S. mining disaster in 40 years. A year ago today, 29 brave and patriotic men went underground to mine the coal that powers our great Nation. They didn't come back. Our entire Nation grieved…

It's going to be an enormous challenge to see what follows on that.

The only thing I would ask for, if you would, give me a breakdown of how you're coordinating.

What I hear a lot from both the miners themselves and operators is that there are two inspections going on; and one might contradict the other; and they get very confused.

The coal miners in West Virginia... they're the salt of the earth; they're hard workers; they're patriotic people; they provide for their families.

I think we're going to have to look at.

Let me make it very clear, I do not, under any circumstances, think that we should eliminate it.

Has MSHA ever considered basically taking the lead role on, basically, teaching the safety end of it?

What has happened over the--and I think that Senator Enzi will say the same, because coming from a large mining State, is the confusion.

Do you believe that it's time to have truly one agency doing training and one agency doing inspections?