Joe Manchin

President Biden, however, has abandoned the Maximum Pressure strategy, under the Biden administration, Iran's revenue from exports of oil products has risen to over $100 billion.

I will do the amicus brief on their behalf and we will show you exactly how we wrote the Bill, the intent of the Bill.

Sanctions under the Trump Administration worked, but they are not working now because this administration has deliberately relaxed enforcement.

The complication is, that this administration doesn't want anything that comes out of the ground.

This absolutely allows China in the market and staying in the market for the entire extent of the IRA.

The Bill was very much written so that we would bring America back, bring manufacturing back to America.

We would not be relying on unreliable supply chains, especially four countries of concern: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea.

I ask that all time be yielded back. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Under the previous order, the bill is considered read a third time. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and…

We have lost more Americans to drug overdoses since 1999 than the number of American lives lost in wars or conflicts since the Civil War, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.

I am 100% supportive of that goal as studies show patients treated at NCI-Designated Cancer Centers have higher survival and recovery rates.

What can NIH do to help expand the medical research footprint in rural states like West Virginia so we can tackle high disease burdens and low life expectancy?

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

NIH is not just great biomedical research institution, it's also a driver of economic growth.

Small businesses are the heart of our economy and our communities, especially in West Virginia where more than 98% of our businesses are small businesses.

The last time the NLRB tried this, a study found that this policy led to 376,000 fewer jobs and $33.3 billion in lost output across the economy.

One out of every three franchise owners say they wouldn't own a small business without the franchise business model.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

If you would do me a favor with your able staff here, if they would just check and find out if that's accurate, the amount of jobs that we know have been lost before or our statistics shows, and the amount of revenue it's caused to our…

Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

We simply cannot afford to add another $750 billion to the national debt.

Instead, we should be focusing on bipartisan student debt reforms that take commonsense steps to fill the gaps in our workforce.

We have to--you are in the Education Department, you have to educate people on what is available.

We have got to answer. Do you want to know why the rural America, and urban and rural America is getting further and further apart, is because rural America has been being left behind and getting screwed.