Joe Manchin

Pat Toomey is going to get an amendment. He -- he'll have a vote on that.

I have never changed at all. This is fighting inflation.

I made very -- very, very carefully evaluations that we wouldn't raise any taxes.

Pat's a good man and good friend of mine. I'm sorry he's not going to be running again and he's leaving the Senate.

We're going to be producing more energy.

This is going to do -- take care of that, because this is aggressively producing more energy to get more supply to get the prices down.

I never thought they would come to an agreement and use a dual path, and basically recognizing with this administration, working with President Biden's administration and working with Chuck Schumer.

I think Susan Collins is my very dear friend, and we work almost on everything together.

I support her completely on that.

I've always said the best politics is good government.

I think that we all have to come back to what our purpose of being in Washington for and who we're really working for. We're not working for any party. We're not working for any political idealism. We're working for basically, right now, a…

Well whatever -- whatever the voters, whatever the voters choose. I can't decide what's going to happen in Kansas or California or Texas. I really can't. I've always taken the approach, 'whoever you send me, that's your representative, and…

What’s driving people sitting on their money right now is a lack of confidence that we can't get our act together in Congress or government.

I've never been in reverse in my lifetime, and I never walked away.

This is the greatest investment we've ever had in energy security.

I'm just not going to be responsible for inflaming the inflation rates. I'm just not going to do it.

I think people are sick and tired of politics, Chuck. I really do.

First of all, Chuck, I agree with my Republican friends. We should not increase taxes, and we did not increase taxes, Chuck.

If you want to get the gasoline prices down, you've got to produce your way out of it.

dirty politics and shame on anyone who tries to do that.

At this point, Anderson, we know that after he said he unequivocally would not be supporting those climate and tax provisions that he and Schumer restarted their negotiations after July 18th.

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington, DC, July…

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington, DC, July…

I ask unanimous consent to print the following letter in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Washington, DC, July…

while my dear friend is here, I want to tell her, you know, 6 months ago--we have worked on this for 6 months. It started in January, and it was 14 Senators who came at that time. We just started talking, and 14 Senators--with all of your…