Joe Manchin

I could never figure how we got into so many hollers and up so many creeks and everything else.

And I think, you know, because they were just trying to survive, so the environment took a way, way far back seat.

The small, the small end farmers, the small end producers, those people who are beholden to the larger corporations, and they really dictate to them what they do and how they do it, anyway.

But we don't, do we?

What we are concerned about is, you know, I know the EU and I am fine. I said, I don't have a problem with our allies. What I have a problem with is going to countries that we don't have what we would call a secure supply chain.

I want to thank you, Madam Secretary, and your staff for being so accommodating and forthright with us and coming before and appearing before the subcommittee.

If I could go back to my bankers and says, for those businesses you might have and even rural areas--they have to keep large amounts of cash because they need that.

We are not holding anything hostage. We are voting to pay our bills.

So to me, that would be a high priority.

The IIJA established the BEAD program to expand high-speed Internet access across the country.

I really believe that in my heart.

So to me, that would be a high priority.

Some of these other countries where an awful lot of the minerals come from are not in the EU.

But we don't, do we?

I think you did the right thing when you all made your decision on taking care of depositors, but not the bank bailout and not the shareholders.

I want to thank you, Madam Secretary, and your staff for being so accommodating and forthright with us.

I think you did the right thing when you all made your decision on taking care of depositors, but not the bank bailout and not the shareholders.

Especially we are affected more in rural areas than most because when there is a pilot shortage, we are the first routes that get cut.

Yesterday, Senator Risch and I introduced the ETAC Establishment Act, which establishes the Energy Threat Analysis Center at DOE.

If you are going to do something, rather than just now saying--they think if you set a precedent now that they are expecting the feds to bail everybody out, and I don't think that is what our intentions are.

If I was capable of bringing some people together on both sides and says, listen, let's sit down and talk about what we think, that we could basically come and look at over a 3-month period to come back with a guaranteed vote on the floor…

So we can go--we can identify some areas ourselves where they are just, they just cannot get service.

Safety on pipelines first, if you can, and get that.

How can we make sure that they are doing what is needed?

My recommendation would be, based on what we talked, with the Huaweis, and all the concerns we had, that that be a high priority of yours to ask in your budget?