Joe Manchin

I think people are depending on us.

Simply put, it's essential that Congress authorize these authorities to help keep the country safe while protecting our constitutional rights.

I expect you will be a forceful advocate for the intelligence community in those discussions, while maintaining an unwavering respect for the rule of law.

As you move forward with MFII, we ask that your efforts help to incent wireless carriers to preserve, upgrade, and expand mobile broadband in rural America, rather than degrade and reduce competition in areas that need it most.

A lot of the hospitals have told me that if an addicted person comes and they do not get what they ask for... they will call their Congressman or Senator.

I think we are on a positive role there and a positive movement.

You would lead the charge nationwide and it would be a great help for the society.

If the Affordable Care Act goes down, we are dead.

It is also within veterans. In my veteran corps it has been very detrimental to them.

If we're ever going to be back into the majority, they're going to have to learn to work with moderates, people that come from red states like myself that might not be able to support certain levels of a base that goes a little bit further…

If they want to get something done, I can try to help make that happen.

But the bottom line is it's the process that we go through that makes us different. That's what we're honoring.

Well, first of all, two wrongs don't make a right. And I think the Republican leadership had led the Republican Party up here in Congress to basically stone wall everything and stop and block everything. That didn't work well and the…

You introduced him today.

I thank my most generous friend from Rhode Island, Senator Whitehouse, for allowing me to speak for a few minutes. (The remarks of Mr. Manchin pertaining to the introduction of S. 175 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on…

Were they evaluated country by country?

West Virginians are asking me continually: Can we trust the intel community?

So basically, whatever relationship you had with that nation, you could be a little easier on one and tougher on another.

Do we as the United States defend any of them when they've been attacked?

When we now it's state-sponsored--Article 5 of the NATO Treaty specifies that all NATO members will defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of other allies if they are attacked.

I think all of us have been very much concerned that the outcome of the election was altered.

I wholeheartedly support his nomination and encourage the committee to do the same.

I cannot think of a better place for them to look, rather than to fall into the tender mercies of Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation.

I was very proud of being the lead Republican sponsor on the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act.

I know Senator Shaheen is very concerned about that, as others should be.