Joe Manchin

Can we make sure that each veteran knows that they come first?

Maybe you all could talk to the Administration and make them understand that.

Do you all plan on manufacturing in America or manufacturing overseas?

Right. That could be a cutting project for us to be able to use a dependable fuel, a reliable fuel such as coal for many years.

We think that we do it as clean as possible and would like to even do it even more but we have no investment or no buy in at all from the Federal Government that is helping us to advance the technologies.

I am sure you have looked at other sectors and mine, in West Virginia, as you know, we do not have any nuclear power plants in West Virginia but we have a tremendous amount of coal-fired plants.

I have had a number of conversations with my colleague and friend, Senator Feinstein, because she has been doing yeoman's work trying to make sure that the water challenges in California are dealt with.

The problems in the Klamath Basin are especially on my mind today because they have been made worse by years of dry conditions that decrease supply and increase the tensions.

The dysfunction that we have, and the political discourse that we have here in this body... shows you that we must come together for the sake of our country

I don't want to go back home to West Virginia and tell the people we just--we're a little bit short on this one.

Private industry is best positioned and incentivized to put its own capital behind its own judgments about when and where to invest.

The benefits are broad and large, including reduced energy costs, increased employment, reduced dependence on imports and increased geostrategic power for the United States.

The debate over domestic production should proceed on the merits not with reference to yesterday's closing price.

We are calling it the 'Alaska Exception, Energy and the Frontier.'

We have built the case for oil exports.

I think we should be tackling this right now not the next time that oil is sitting at $100 a barrel or even more.

I think that that should be part of our goal, to ensure that America remains an attractive place to produce the resources that we need and will use right here at home.

I want to just state, in wrapping up, my commitment to work with Senator Crapo to thread the needle on this to find a solution that is consistent with the Wilderness Act and also with the grazing language that was included in the original…

My O&C bill would double the harvest compared to the average harvest over the last decade, and it would ensure lasting protections for Oregon's special places.

The West has seen devastating job loss.

Now is not the time to set an artificial schedule.

To me, this is inexcusable.

We created a workforce training program to incentivize labor and industry to work together and provide training.

That is why Senator Murkowski and I worked together on the Workforce Title of the Energy bill.

Our goal is not just to keep or make the cheapest product, but to continue to advance in innovative technologies such as semiconductors, aerospace and innovate faster than others.