The Public Record
Joe Manchin is a United States Senator from West Virginia, serving since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously held the position of Governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010. Manchin is known for his centrist approach and has often positioned himself as a bridge between moderate Democrats and Republicans in the Senate. His legislative focus includes issues such as infrastructure, energy policy, and healthcare.
I think what we're all talking about, no matter who the President, he or she may be, truth to power is something that we have to have professionals such as yourself be willing to speak up and protect the citizens in this great country of…
We have had a 46 percent reduction in homeless veterans. We still have 40,000 homeless veterans--way, way too many.
I cannot even fathom how any veteran should ever not have a roof over their head.
You need to be recognized in an affirmative way for basically not allowing your VA patients to dictate the dispensing as part of the overall care they are getting.
We are asking the money to flow not based on population but based on need, where the greatest occurrences are.
You know about opioid addiction in my State, in West Virginia, but also throughout the entire veterans' community.
In a January 5th interview with Federal News Radio, Secretary Shulkin proposed that a review and closure process of underutilized and vacant facilities, like the Department of Defense has with BRAC, would free up resources and do…
I do want to associate myself with Senator Stabenow. This is a separate issue. I am gravely concerned, Madam Chair, about the volume of natural gas exports.
The United States does not have a domestic source of these critical minerals. I repeat. The United States does not have a domestic source of these critical minerals, and instead imports nearly all of its rare earth elements from China.
That is why I have strongly urged my colleagues to provide emergency funding to stop this epidemic.
We're down to the point now if you go to the hospital... if they say, 'Listen, I'm recovering, I'm proud of it...'
No, there's not a person up here, Democrat or Republican, that doesn't want to help people that are in severe pain, end-of-life pain, chronic illnesses, cancer. We're all fighting for that.
780 million hydrocodone and oxycodone painkillers between 2007 and 2012. Now, mind you, we only have 1,800,000 people; that's all we have in our State.
This is truly a bipartisan problem. So this is not a Democrat/Republican problem that we have here, and it's a killer.
The current situation is unacceptable, and we need more than tough talk from President Trump to address this.
It's long past time for this administration to get serious about this crisis.
This epidemic is an emergency. Every day, 175 Americans die from opioid overdose; yet, the administration has been shockingly silent.
We are depending on your support because I think the State of West Virginia can produce what is needed to be produced
It would seem to me that it would behoove our country to take a position that we are going to produce so much domestically, knowing that we can, just for the defense of our own nation, for the security of our nation.
I was amazed to find out that nowhere in the country are we mining any of this, producing any.
I am excited about the work that NETL is doing, and I believe we have a tremendous opportunity to continue to use our nation's abundant coal resources to strengthen our national security.
I believe the Department of Energy's research will help set us on a path toward reestablishing domestic production of these critical minerals.
Politicians like Joe Manchin
