Joe Manchin

Why don't we just educate a person that basically when they take the debt out, when they sign up for the Stafford Loan, that they think is free money, it is not free money.

We are spending more on giving money away than we ever did on education. It makes no sense to me at all.

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.

It is not an understatement to say this has been an unmitigated disaster caused by an inexcusable failure of leadership.

The political leadership at the Department of Education chose to spend time, resources, and personnel to advance the administration's priorities around cancelling student debt.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.

I was pleased to see the Department's finalized the rule implementing the Jessica Grubb's Legacy Act we worked on for so long.

Concerning to me too is a proposed $10 million for new discretionary group program for funding harm reduction grants.

I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.

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.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

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.

For me, biomedical research at NIH is a priority for me and has been for these long bicameral bipartisan priorities as well.

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

I hope to, again, work in a bipartisan way to fund our joint priorities, such as finding cures and treatments for cancer.

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.

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.

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.

Well, we tried to get rid of it, but the President over--he vetoed us.

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…