Joe Manchin

We ought to do that, Mr. Chairman; if I could request that. Put a working group together with you all?

Let me tell you one thing, if some of us could bring our heads of our caseworkers in our States and bring them to sit with you.

I think what needs to be considered here is that--I can just tell you what our staff feels like, and the caseworkers.

I thank the Senator for answering the questions that we have had. I thank all of you for being informative in the questions that we still have furthermore to ask.

I have not had that in West Virginia at all. If anything, they said: Please, err on the side of caution. Keep me and my children safe. That is what they are saying. We are not taking any people's rights. But we have to have a process where…

Do they think we have broached the amendments and the Bill of Rights, that we have taken people's rights away?

Senator, do you have anybody in the State of Connecticut who is coming to you and saying: You know, I have a friend who was suspected of being a terrorist, and their rights have been taken away. They are an American citizen, and for some…

I am concerned about the precedent this bill would set for giving states authority over public lands managed by the Federal Government for all Americans.

It does not solve all of our problems, not by a long stretch of the imagination, but when you recognize that we have not done anything to update our energy policies for close to nine years now, you have to get started somewhere, sometime…

I think we recognize that trying to divine the future is not easy around here, but Mr. McGarvey, you speak about putting together a longer-term vision, a view of our energy policy for this country.

The Keystone pipeline was not the right path for America. President Obama deserves credit for rejecting the project.

I think it is time to vote.

So you are going to have to have baseload.

And you think those could make it without the subsidies that we have given?

Well, the cracker plant is going to be tremendous for all of us.

We have been a heavy, heavy lifter for many years and produced an awful lot of energy for this country.

Thank you to Senator Daines for inspiring that, to allow them to maintain and improve their safety efforts.

But the EIA basically predicts that fossil, as far as gas and coal, is going to be a major player with almost 70 percent of the play, up until 2040.

I have been advocating for a three state solution which would basically be the Mid Atlantic energy hub.

Do you agree that the type of hub, shale basically, with what Shell is doing up there in the play? Do you believe that type of a hub would attract greater manufacturing infrastructure investment to our region?

I want the record to be very clear that I did not refer to my good friend from Nevada as an SOB.

We want this to be seamless for the veteran. It ought to be about what is the right thing for veterans and taxpayers.

It cannot be used in a rating system, because an addict is not going to give you a good rating if they do not get what they want.

The reason I am saying this is the feedback I received from that gave us the impetus to move on legislation.

I want to say one thing on the opiates.