Joe Manchin

The U.S., the EU, and our other allies are working together to support Ukraine.

There's not going to be any big movement on more wind out on the Gulf unless we are extracting gas and oil from the Gulf.

We cannot be held captive, which we are right now, by Russia, China, Iran, North Korea, or countries that have nothing in common with our way of life and our desired governance and democracy and freedom.

All of us have reasons to want to decarbonize and be environmentally friendly and understand our responsibility.

Putin has played the long game in weaponizing Russia's abundant energy resources in the region.

The U.S. has a responsibility and opportunity to support our friends and allies.

That is why Senators Barrasso, Risch, and I are introducing bills to cut our reliance on Russian nuclear fuel while reestablishing our uranium conversion and enrichment capacity to meet our domestic nuclear fuel needs.

This war has taken precious human lives and has had immediate international consequences that will be felt for decades.

We are slow on permitting. You know that. And we have got to speed that up in order to do the job.

I would kindly ask you to take back to the White House the imperative of what it can mean to bring on meaningful production in this country.

We must evaluate our supply chains and ensure that we are not beholden to countries that do not share our values.

I am proud that immediately following Putin's invasion last year, members of this Committee acted quickly, on a bipartisan basis, to introduce legislation to ban U.S. imports of Russian energy.

The Committee will come to order.

the Federal Government does not have any business telling American families how to cook their dinner.

In 2021, Congress worked in a bipartisan way to enact the most significant federal investment in our nation's infrastructure in decades.

I have come out strongly against the Consumer Product Safety Commission pursuing any ban of gas stoves.

It is my intention to make sure that these laws are implemented swiftly, effectively, and in line with that clear Congressional intent.

This, combined with the energy security investments provided in the Inflation Reduction Act, will be game-changing for us to become more energy secure.

I would like to welcome and thank David Turk, Deputy Secretary at the Department of Energy, for appearing before the Committee today.

I saw some exciting news this morning, and it said that General Motors announced it is making a $650 million equity investment in Lithium Americas to develop the Thacker Pass Mine in Nevada. Now, this has been talked about for 10, 12, 13…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Unanimous Consent Request--S. 63

I ask unanimous consent that the Finance Committee be discharged from further consideration of S. 63, a bill to adjust the effective date of application of certain amendments made with respect to the credit for new clean vehicles; that the…

I ask unanimous consent that the privileges of the floor be granted to the following members of my staff: David Rosner, our detailee from FERC; and Sarah Stevenson, our American Association for the Advancement of Science, as of today until…

I rise today to ask unanimous consent to discharge and pass the American Vehicle Security Act, a bill I introduced with Senator Braun yesterday. Let me explain what we are trying to do and what we have done by passing the IRA. China has…

maybe I can help a little bit with clearing it up. Everyone thinks that all of a sudden, that at the end of the year, the first of the year, that the automobile industry in the United States, in order to get any credit at all, had to have…