Joe Manchin

If you will work with us on that and make sure that our miners do not get shortchanged, I would be very appreciative.

If we do not take action, this is the high-end scenario, 50 years from now.

Do people just defy the accuracy or the logic of this that do not want anything touched in these areas, and these are pristine areas, I understand. But still yet, if I am going to preserve a pristine area, I am going to make sure that we…

I am confused a little bit as to why the President's Budget for 2018 proposed $134 million in payments to the United Mine Workers of America.

The penalty for that is borne entirely environmentally by our state.

We must do more to ensure they are not limited by a lack of connectivity.

I strongly support the continued focus on making more spectrum available for commercial use.

The universal service mandate means that Americans living in even the most rural and remote areas of the Nation must have access to comparable services available to those in urban communities.

We do not have the market to drive the market forces out. That is where we are just dead in the water.

I think that Senator Capito and I both--and she has worked so hard on this--but both of us understand being around our State.

And you want a war on poverty, you let us--you know, we get the people connected, they have got a chance to survive.

Another critical component of the Universal Service Program will be the Remote Areas Fund.

I hope that you would look at the topography of our State too. It is not Kansas.

We cannot afford to leave rural America behind and we are very concerned about this.

Includes an assessment of whether the data in the National Broadband Map accurately reflects the broadband coverage currently available to rural consumers and . . . is a critical step towards ensuring that the infrastructure necessary for…

I recently joined Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in sponsoring legislation to encourage partnerships between the state forests and the Forest Service to carry out such landscape restoration efforts.

We cannot short-change our efforts to combat this crisis.

We made a promise to our miners and cutting this critical funding undermines that promise.

That is why I have joined with Senators Kaine, Warner, and Casey to push for the fully authorized level of funding for this program: $10 million.

That may seem like a small amount when we're talking about this huge budget, but for a $7.2 million program that serves some of the hardest working people the country, that's a lot of money.

What do you propose telling the children, veterans, and seniors who rely on the services that this block grant helps us provide?

West Virginians who are suffering from opioid addiction don't have an extra few thousand dollars to spend on treatment.

My state of West Virginia has been hit harder by the opioid epidemic than any other state.

We lost more than 33,000 people to an opioid overdose in 2015.

That is why I introduced Jessie's Law.