Joe Manchin

When parents send their children to school, they expect them to be safe. However, this is not always the case.

it is really unconscionable that the 85 percent of Americans who do not have Federal student loans would be stuck with the bill for this political giveaway.

On behalf of the great people of West Virginia and my entire State, our deepest sympathy to the families of the children and the teachers who were lost in Uvalde in a horrible tragedy.

Senators Manchin and Toomey (R-PA) introduced a bill to ensure that what happened in West Virginia could never happen again.

the Committee for Responsible Federal Budget estimates that student loan forgiveness would cost at least $230 billion.

We did a bill at that time, which is a background check, but we had school safety in that background, the Manchin-Toomey bill.

The Upward Bound program... has been such a wonderful program, helped so many kids in my State of West Virginia.

if you really want to make college expensive, make it free, and have the Federal Government pay the bill.

Let me reiterate that for you and for my colleagues: student loan forgiveness, as it's currently being considered and discussed, would largely benefit those who do not truly need it.

You know, talking about bans, I wouldn't have a problem on looking at some of these things. What is the necessity? Tell me what the purpose is, and let's use them for those purposes.

Here, you want to look at two things that could have prevented this -- an age requirement would have prevented an 18-year-old and basically a Red Flag Law that is basically intended to try to help a person get some mental help.

I have never been in his frame of mind. I can`t get my grandchildren out of my mind. This time around, it feels very different.

The bill we have today to vote on, Women`s Health Protection Act, and I respect people who support it, but make no mistake, it is not Roe v Wade codification. It`s an expansion.

Senator Manchin's objections here, really speak more to a desire to permit states to restrict abortion than to permit women to make their own decisions about these important matters concerning their own bodies.

As long as there are members of the Democratic Party, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema who put these, you know, sort of recondite procedural techniques ahead of being actually able to pass legislation, there`s frankly very little that, you…

I don`t really understand the point of putting this up for a vote if you can`t get all the Democrats on board.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant executive clerk called the roll.

I am pleased to support the nomination of Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe to be the Director of the Office of Science at the Department of Energy. President Reagan famously complained that the Department of Energy never ``produced a quart of oil…

I`ve always said, if I can go home and explain it, I can`t vote for it. And that`s why I oppose Build Back Better. For Alex Mooney and his out of state supporters, to suggest David McKinley supported build back better is an outright lie…

2 days ago, it was my unhappy task to notify the Senate that the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources had deadlocked on another nomination and on 3 important public land bills, with all 10 Democratic members voting for each bill and…

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The yeas and nays are requested. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll.

If you are going to put this product on the market, you ought to know the damage it does.

I was pleased to cosponsor this important legislation, which will fund essential research into fast-progressing terminal diseases like ALS.

The 340B Drug Pricing Program is essential for providing access to safe and affordable medications for West Virginians.

When parents send their children to school, they expect them to be safe. However, this is not always the case.