Joe Manchin

The other thing, Russia or any other country that has been found guilty of meddling in our elections, which I think that we have confirmed by all our intelligence communities, what punishment or what recommendations of punishment or…

But it's a concern for the 2018 election?

Should we treat a cyber attack or intrusion on our government, on our country, if sponsored or directed by a foreign government, which we know was, an act of war?

We're coming down to the wire on the election, as you all know.

Everyone here, Democrat and Republican, wants to do the best for the veterans.

Just for the sake of the patients, for the sake of that hospital, have to have something permanently done there on a timely basis.

I have not had a veteran saying, 'I wish I could go,' because they can if they want.

I wish you and your staff well, and I do support you.

I want to thank all of you. I just would hope, on the autoclave--I am making one more pitch--we just----

I know you also have more flexibility on sometimes just eliminating people who have not been able to get up to the par of service.

I should have probably never had to make that call, and how that person would get this assumed promotion after they had messed up.

I am saying if Los Angeles has got a problem and I have got a problem, I could be in real trouble.

The economic impact is $36 billion, almost at the turn of the switch, but on top of that, the security of our nation.

We used to have stockpiles of rare earth minerals.

Cost is immaterial if we need something and you can't get it and they shut us down.

We don't even mine any rare earth minerals, but we use more than any other country on Earth on a daily basis.

I would like to applaud the Administration's commitment to domestic producing energy, especially in the gas arena.

I cannot believe it.

It is hard sometimes to find good recruits. You seem to be the best of the best.

I have been told by my utility producers, whether they be electricity by coal-fired for baseload or whether it be our natural gas in all the pipelines, that we are building and pumping stations. I am concerned about the vulnerability.

My hope is that there will be able to be bipartisan legislation to try to start addressing this issue.

I think this Committee has done some very good bipartisan work in a series of areas that arose out of the Russia investigation.

We should hold that. I've never seen--we're going to lose a whole generation in West Virginia.

I appreciate what the FBI does and they have a strong presence in West Virginia.

It's with drugs. My State of West Virginia's been hit harder than any State.