Joe Manchin

The NASA IV&V facility provides an invaluable service to the nation to ensure that software safety, reliability, and quality for NASA and NASA-led missions meet the highest standards to ensure mission success of multi-billion programs.

I'm not sure the private sector is going to step in with so much left undone. I just don't think they'll jump in unless it's a win-win for them.

I'm perplexed by NASA's fiscal year 2018 budget request for the Restore-L program.

I would like to talk to you about NASA's Restore-L program, a satellite servicing mission that seeks to prove satellites can be robotically refueled and repaired in space.

I don't know how it can be done without hands-on.

They suggest, or this suggests, that NASA will move to a spectator sport experience versus the actual hands-on experience.

I'm disappointed in the administration's decision to eliminate NASA Office of Education.

We're working. We're just working a little bit. We'll be talking. It will happen, hopefully.

There has to be leadership. And I think that's what the world's crying for right now.

We're into containment of Russian power.

The rhetoric coming from our White House under this Administration, has it caused our NATO allies to start moving toward contributing two percent to the defense spending?

I think it goes back to what, Mr. Sarts, you just had said. They have been controlling their people by misinforming them, by basically not giving them the facts, giving them what they want them to know.

As a matter of fact, when this whole effort started it wasn't targeted at one party or the other.

The most significant one, not the only one, is this deliberate action by the Russians.

It is his duty--President Trump's--to be skeptical of Russia.

There's been reports--it's open source--that Putin was directly involved giving direction in the United States elections, the last presidential election.

It's time for the Congress, and not the President, to lead the American response to Russia's cyber attack on the United States.

I think the proximate cause was Russian hostility.

I hope the House of Representatives will back and not dilute in this sense the very strong Senate sanctions bill against Moscow that you passed by a 97-to-2 margin two weeks ago.

It's inconceivable to me that any of President Trump's predecessors would deny the gravity of such an open attack on our democratic system.

It would be a grave mistake of President Trump to veto such a bill.

Russia is really testing the leadership and resolve of the West.

The President has shown that he's unwilling to act against Russia.

Absolutely, I will always give my honest assessment with complete integrity of the intelligence process.

I envision employment opportunities locally, state-wide and regionally that will reinvigorate our West Virginia workforce and our economy.