Joe Manchin

Recently, the President vetoed a bipartisan congressional resolution overturning the National Labor Relations Board NLRB rule, redefining who is a joint employer.

I was pleased to see a focus on biomedical research related to the Cancer Moonshot across HHS agencies.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

The last time the NLRB tried this, a study found that this policy led to 376,000 fewer jobs and $33.3 billion in lost output across the economy.

I do think the added investments in actual training programs that reach communities that have been left out in the past would also help to create, you know, a climate in which people understand that these are real options for them.

We have got to answer. Do you want to know why the rural America, and urban and rural America is getting further and further apart, is because rural America has been being left behind and getting screwed.

For me, biomedical research at NIH is a priority for me and has been for these long bicameral bipartisan priorities as well.

Expensive new Federal programs, like free college, are ill-advised and unlikely to be considered.

This $40 million cut is based on false claims of the declining demand for the program...

Do you all acknowledge the job--can you acknowledge the job losses that came when they did implement it the last time?

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

This $40 million cut is based on false claims of the declining demand for the program...

So we thought we crossed every hurdle, crossed every T and dotted every I; it is just time to implement it.

This is stupid. And we just keep piling it on like it is-- there is no end to it.

The NIH's policy of requiring grantees to submit a 'Plan for Enhancing Diverse Perspectives' or PEDP mandates that researchers prioritize spending their precious time and capital to check the diversity box.

The budget proposes $49.8 billion in funding for NIH, including 21st Century Cures and ARPA-H.

I was a bit disappointed that the budget lacked new resources for rural health programs.

We have no financial requirements whatsoever, literacy, when a student goes into the college.

FAFSA completions are down 36 percent nationally compared to this time last year.

The way the bills that we all passed in a bipartisan way, and even the IRA (Inflation Reduction Act) bill, the way it's being implemented is different than the way we wrote it.

It is not an understatement to say this has been an unmitigated disaster caused by an inexcusable failure of leadership.

Small businesses are the heart of our economy and our communities, especially in West Virginia where more than 98% of our businesses are small businesses.

Bring manufacturing back to America. You can't bring manufacturing back if you relax the rules and where you get your critical minerals and where you put produce them.

Well, we tried to get rid of it, but the President over--he vetoed us.

I would implore you to get your staff moving on this one here. We waited a long time for it.