Joe Manchin

I have great concerns about what I think is a proposed cut that could affect as many as 1,000 people at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

President Trump's budget is a break in that bipartisan tradition.

That is why I am so worried about the President's Budget Request to cut more than $200 million from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

This is a public health crisis and we have to find a better way.

I share my colleagues concern about the President's budget cuts of more than $7 billion to NIH overall.

We can't afford to not invest in medical research.

I have always supported strong funding for NIH because it is an investment that saves lives.

I am disturbed to see that the President's budget would cut funding for the National Institute of General Medical Sciences--which houses this program--by more than $400 million.

I believe that we should be expanding this program so that states like West Virginia can have the opportunity to build their medical research programs.

Along with Senators Wicker, Cochran, Cardin, Thune, and Warner, I introduced the CONNECT for Health Act to lift outdated restrictions on Medicare's reimbursement of telehealth.

We have got to do more, we have got to provide more resources, more help.

Are there counter-actions the U.S. can take to subvert or punish the Russians for what they have done?

Do you believe that it had an effect in this election outcome of this 2016 election?

Are they seeing a high--an overaggressive, high activity, from the Russians that they haven't seen at this level before?

I don't think we get to where we need to be.

Have we shared this with our allies, our European allies, who are going through election processes?

There's not an American right now that should have a reasonable doubt whatsoever that the Russians were involved.

I just really hope we err on the side of disclosure about our systems so that people have full confidence when they go vote.

I don't believe is an acceptable decision.

This is the new normal.

I joined Senator Amy Klobuchar in sponsoring legislation to encourage partnerships between the Forest Service and state foresters.

I strongly support efforts to increase collaborative forest management.

If we do not have these dollars, this cannot happen.

The reduction hits them very, very hard.

I would hope you would look at that, sir, before you all make that step because these communities that gave so much to this great country need a little bit of assistance to get back up on their feet, and eliminating that would be very…