Joe Manchin

The FSMB also endorsed S. 2107, Department of Veterans Affairs Provider Accountability Act, which would require the Under Secretary of Health to report major adverse personnel actions.

We're working together in the Senate Appropriations Committee.

It shouldn't be easier to get a bottle of pills than it is to access the therapy you need right at home.

Every veteran deserves better.

With this disaster that we have had throughout all three of the islands of your Virgin Island chain, are people more willing to understand we have to make changes to prepare for the next time we get hit?

It is insane to rebuild the way it was.

I think, as a nation, we could have done better, and we must do better.

We are going to get to the bottom of this, if it takes a long time. Why? Because we never want to see this happen again.

The welfare of the Puerto Rico people, to rebuild the island, is my number one concern, but I will not stop making sure that the U.S. taxpayer is not gouged in this process.

Well Senator, when 80 percent of the people, on average, can't turn on their lights---- they're willing to do anything to get their lights back on.

If we are able to break through that this time here, to really, to get to where we can give you a more----

In my little State of West Virginia, when I was Governor, we had disaster plans, what was going to be subjected to, obviously, subjected to flooding.

I understand the emergency situation. Things are stressful. I understand all that and also the cost on the island.

My heart goes out to all of you. I understand how tough this is and everything.

I am very much committed to renewables in Puerto Rico.

There is a fundamental problem with removing the authority of the grid from the people and handing it over to an unelected oversight board.

Those of us who come from extraction states have done the heavy lifting.

We do not live in a fantasy world and we cannot pick and choose what we would rather have.

There is nobody in West Virginia that wants to drink dirty water or breathe dirty air, the same as Alaska.

We have achieved this balance. It is time to permit the exploration and development.

We think we can do things better but also find a balance.

Our way of life, also, has been infringed upon.

I come from the State of West Virginia and it is a state that believes, really, in an all-in energy policy.

I am especially interested in making sure that small- and medium-enterprises, just the kind of businesses that I am so familiar with in West Virginia, have full access to the programs authorized by Congress.

We are never going to be able to compete entirely with China.