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We cannot basically have a divided country, and we cannot withstand that.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
My filing date is January 15 in 2024, and I will make my decision maybe a little bit before that, but not until the end of the year, I can assure you.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
So, I’m in that camp of wanting to have these serious discussions because I know that many in my caucus don’t seem to be in that camp.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
That’s not my factor, i’m not weighing that because of my, what it might do to the numbers as far as up here. No, I’ve been at this for quite some time. This term being up, there’ll be 42 years I’ve been in public service so I’ve given everything I possibly can.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
I make a decision based on if I’ve been able to deliver for the state, have I been able to support the Constitution and the oath I’ve taken, I think I have, is there more I can do in different, other areas? I don’t know.
Found on CNN 1 year ago
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a vital piece of our nation’s infrastructure that bolsters our energy and national security, while the reserve has been a policy Band-Aid for rising gas prices and the global unrest caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the reserve is, above-all, meant to help the United States and our allies through difficult times, not to help China power its economy.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This bill would ensure that we are not risking our energy security by selling our petroleum reserves to China, and the bipartisan support this legislation has received shows just how important it is for America to be energy secure and independent.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is a recipe for disaster. The federal government has no business telling American families how to cook their dinner. I can tell you the last thing that would ever leave my house is the gas stove that we cook on, if this is the greatest concern that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has for American consumers, I think we need to reevaluate the commission.
Found on FOX News 1 year ago
We have a crisis of the border. Everyone can see that, i think everyone realizes that something has to be done. It needs to be extended until we can get really, truly immigration reform. Immigration reform will not happen in our country until we all come on both sides of the aisle.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The senator has been successful because of his personal brand and the trust he’s built with voters over four decades, not being of the party label next to his name. I don’t think Sen. Sinema’s announcement today changes anything about Manchin’s thinking heading into 2024, when both senators are up for re-election.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
You’re going to get your financial house in order. We cannot live with this crippling debt, if we don’t look at the trust funds that are going bankrupt, whether they be Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, highway, all the ones — there are tremendous problems right now.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're going to vote and it's going to be in the CR, and if they're willing to say, ‘We’re going to close down the government because of a personal attack on me…' This is what makes people sick about politics.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's all about the country -- security we need, and energy security, i think they'll rise above that. I really do.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Everyone thinks is a side deal. There's no side, there was only one we looked at, we need energy, we need energy security. And if you're going to have energy insecurity, if that permitting reform, you can't get it down, so it's all part of the same.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
How can it add flames to inflation fires right now if you're paying down debt.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Well, we found that they were wrong. And people can be wrong, but how in the world can it be inflammatory ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I've had discussions with people that [have] been trusted, the same people that work with me on inflation, it's been a cross-section of really some good intended people … [who are] not self-serving.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our tax code should not favor red-state or blue-state elites with loopholes like SALT.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I would hope they would look at it with, let's say, with clear lenses.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When that 9.1 came in, I said,' I can't, I just can't do it,' that's when Chuck got upset.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I said,' This is ridiculous,' let's recalibrate and see if there's something that can be done. And to his credit, he says,' OK.'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
President Biden was not involved, i was not going to bring the President in, I didn't think it was fair to bring him in, and this thing could very well have not happened at all. It could have absolutely gone sideways. I had to see if we could make this work.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This bill is fighting inflation and it's got a whole set of collateral benefits as well.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I said, ‘Can we just wait until the inflation figures come out [for] July, until we know if the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates?’ then make the decision on what we can do and how much we can do.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Inflation is absolutely killing many, many people, they can't buy gasoline, they have a hard time buying groceries, everything they buy and consume for their daily lives is a hardship to us. And can't we wait to make sure that we do nothing to add to that ?
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's based around children. It's based around prevention and intervention. That's what it's based about. So we have to take what we have as a positive, and work off of this. This piece of legislation as drafted should not be threatening to any law-abiding citizen in the United States of America. Not one.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
So many of my good friends and colleagues on the Republican side have stepped forward, looking at a most reasonable pathway to do something that will protect the children of America.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
We're getting this at the last possible day, the last possible minute, knowing that there's other steps to go through, the timing is not right that you've taken as long as you possibly could.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm sorry to say it has become crystal clear that the' pause' is in fact a' ban,'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Alex Mooney has proven Alex Mooney's all about Alex Mooney. But West Virginians know David McKinley is all about us.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Every part of the state is tickled to death in knowing what they want to get repaired... for the first time in 30 or 40 years, but what Mooney is trying to do is lump one with the other. That is an outright lie.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
But what Mooney is trying to do is lump one with the other. That is an outright lie.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Alex Mooney has proven that Alex Mooney's all about Alex Mooney.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
David McKinley has always opposed reckless spending because it doesn't make sense for West Virginia.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It was disgraceful. It really was, what I saw. I met with Susan Collins of Maine, I read all the transcripts. ... It was embarrassing. It's not who we are. It's not what we were sent here to do, to attack other people and try to tear them down. I'm not going to be part of that. I think she's extremely well qualified and I think she will be an exemplary judge.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm a little bit skeptical of the electric vehicles that everyone's moving to as rapidly as they are, i'm very much concerned about the supply chain. I am very much concerned about being totally relying on China to supply the necessary resources we need to have that transition happen.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Half of that money should be dedicated to fighting inflation and reducing the deficit, the other half you can pay for a 10-year program, whatever you think is a nice priority, and right now it seems to be the environment.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The bottom line is the production of fossil fuels right now, wind and solar( are) not going to put natural gas over there. We can build a pipeline in two to six months. Basically, the administration needs to step up and help us on that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
The energy future is moving towards clean and renewables. We should speed that transition because it's going to insulate Americans from these energy price shocks. absolutely we have to go forward with our climate solutions ; I've always been all for that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Absolutely we have to go forward with our climate solutions ; I've always been all for that.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is something real upfront, right now, we can do immediately, is to take care of the financial problems we have.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think absolutely it'll pass. Now, there will be some people saying it's not enough. There will be some people saying it's more than what we should do or we don't need it. And what we'll do is try to bring them all together and say,' Listen, this is what we should do because this is what caused the problem. And it's what we can do. So let's do that,'.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'm endorsing my dear friend Lisa Murkowski. Alaska could only be so lucky to have her continue to serve Lisa Murkowski.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
No way, shape or form will( Alaska Senate Minority Leader) Mitch McConnell or Chuck Schumer not support Mitch McConnell or Chuck Schumer caucus. Alaska Senate just doesn't happen.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Could we have some discipline in the votes, ever ? you’re in charge !
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Almost certainly we'll have a bipartisan bill there, fix what happened, the insurrection, stop that from ever happening again.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's not going to change the makeup of Supreme Court, it's not too hard to get more liberal than me. It would not bother me having a person who is sound in their thought [ process ] and who is sound in their disbursement of justice.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I take my Constitutional responsibility to advise and consent on a nominee to the Supreme Court very seriously. I look forward to meeting with and evaluating the qualifications of President Biden’s nominee to fill this Supreme Court vacancy.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
But we changed them with the rules. We didn't break the rules to change the rules. But all of a sudden now we just can't do it anymore. Just got to blow it up.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation, there’s a lot of good, but that bill is a mammoth piece of legislation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The majority of my colleagues in the Democrat caucus, they changed. They change their minds, i respect that. You have a right to change your mind. I haven't. I hope they respect that too. I've never changed my mind on the filibuster.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We should all support the right the vote, everyone, but not breaking the rules to make new rules.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Those are the points I have been making for an awful long time, we need changes to make the Senate work better. Not (by) getting rid of the filibuster.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
As such, and as I have said many times before, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We need some good rules changes, i wouldn't want to delude anybody into thinking this is easy, but we're trying to come to a place where 50 senators can support two bills -- the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Act -- and with a change in the rules, so we can get the votes to pass these bills into law.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
I am not going to be part of blowing up this Senate of ours or basically this democracy of ours or the republic that we have, if we have a 51-vote threshold in the Senate, the same as the House--the House wasn't designed to be partisan.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The reason I say it's a heavy lift is once United States change a rule or United States have a carve out -- I've always said this -- anytime there's a carve out, United States eat the whole turkey. There's nothing left because it comes back and forth.
Found on CNN 2 years ago
Iam not going to be part of blowing up this Senate of ours or basically this democracy of ours or the republic that we have.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When you have these things coming at you the way they are right now … I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.
Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There’s a lot of good, but that bill is a mammoth piece of legislation.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I've done everything humanly possible, when you have these things coming at you the way they are right now … I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I gave Schumer exactly the philosophical beliefs and the amount of money that I thought we could raise and pay for everything. And so they've had that from day one, the same bill I have in front of me right now that they kept putting in front of me, was the same $6 trillion bill from the beginning. The only thing that changed was the time element which would pay for things.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The same bill I have in front of me right now that they kept putting in front of me, was the same $6 trillion bill from the beginning. The only thing that changed was the time element which would pay for things.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I would like to hope that there's still Democrats that feel like I do. I said I'm fiscally responsible and socially compassionate. Now, if there's no Democrats like that, then they'll have to push me wherever they want me.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I have always said,' If I can't go back home and explain it, I can't vote for it,' despite my best efforts, I can not explain the sweeping Build Back Better Act in West Virginia and I can not vote to move forward on this mammoth piece of legislation.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is staff. And they drove some things, and they put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable, and they know what it is. And that's it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
This is staff. And they drove some things and they put some things out that were absolutely inexcusable, and they know what it is. And that's it.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
They figured, surely to God we can move one person. We can badger and beat up one person, surely we get enough protesters to make that person uncomfortable enough.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I can not vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can't. I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a no on this legislation. I have tried everything I know to do.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is a no on this piece of legislation, i have tried everything I know to do.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
My Democratic colleagues in Washington are determined to dramatically reshape our society in a way that leaves our country even more vulnerable to the threats we face, i cannot take that risk.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
What we need to do is get our financial house in order but be able to pay for what we do and do what we pay for.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We have $ 1.75 to work within. And the only thing I'm saying is whatever -- I'm not in charge so whatever they have to choose, they have to choose. It's not me.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
More than 500,000 Americans have died since the FDA first approved Oxycontin in 1995, furthermore, Dr. Califf has indicated he plans to keep Dr. Janet Woodcock, who has led the FDA and directly overseen the approval of numerous highly addictive drugs to market, as part of FDA leadership.
Found on FOX News 3 years ago
I don't think that's a fair evaluation of saying we are going to spend X amount of dollars but then we are going to have to depend on coming back and finding more money... I'm concerned about paying down debt too.
Found on CNN 3 years ago
Schumer said. ROMNEY ANNOUNCES HE WILL VOTE TO CONVICT TRUMP IN IMPEACHMENT TRIAL Republicans had long-predicted a bipartisan acquittal, but the last-minute decision by the three robbed Trump of that talking point. With Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, defecting from his party and voting for guilt on one article of impeachment, it was Democrats who celebrated bipartisanship. The vote created a bipartisan impeachment that can never be erased from history, Schumer said. Democrats touted the party unity and praised the House impeachment managers for making a convincing case. There was a bipartisan vote -- even though it wasnt two thirds -- that found President Trump guilty, Stabenow said. Every single Democrat plus one Republican. On Monday, Manchin took to the Senate floor to push for a lighter measure ofcensure againstTrump and he was considered by Republicans one of their best bets for a defection. For his part, Manchin said he prayed on the decision. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP This was the most difficult decision Ive ever had to make, Manchin told reporters afterward. This is not a political vote whatsoever. Its not whether I like the president. Ive always had a good relationship [with Trump], but I love my country, and I have an obligation, responsibilities and my duties to my country. And if I cant explain that then shame on me.
Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Censure would allow this body to unite across party lines and as an equal branch of government to formally denounce the President's actions and hold him accountable.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
The most dangerous, the most troubling to me, is the false claim that the President can do no wrong, that he is above the law and if it's good for the reelection of the President that it's good for our country. That is simply preposterous.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
I want witnesses. I definitely want witnesses, the only thing I've said is that there should be an adult in the room and Chief Justice John Roberts's Chief Justice John Roberts. We should vote again on Chief Justice John Roberts being able to determine who is pertinent... if Hunter Biden is one of the people who is pertinent to the evidence or to the trial, then absolutely.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
West Virginia's fine with me, if they let electronics in, if we have cell phones or anything electronic, we'd be all there paying attention to that and not paying attention to what's going on, just like the kids do.
Found on CNN 4 years ago
This is not a solution that can be held off any longer and we must act now.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
A years been too long. Its too long, especially if youre a family member, and we want to make sure the timelines, we understand more, what time, how many people involved, how many families are wondering now. These are all questions we need answered.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
These crimes shock the conscience and I'm still appalled they were not only committed but that our veterans, who have sacrificed so much for our country, were the victims.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The deaths under investigation all appear linked by lethal doses of insulin, given to patients not being treated fordiabetes or high blood sugar. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., met withVeterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie and the medical centers director, Dr. Glenn Snider, on Monday to discuss the ongoing investigation. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP I was also assured by both Secretary Wilkie and Dr. Snider that the person of interest is no longer in any contact with veterans at the VA facility, these crimes shock the conscience and Im still appalled they were not only committed, but that our veterans, who have sacrificed so much for our country, were the victims. As a member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee, I will do everything in my power to investigate these accusations and get to the bottom of what happened. These families and loved ones deserve answers as soon as possible, and I will make sure they get them.
Found on FOX News 5 years ago
We have relied on the industry more than we should rely on the industry to do the job that we should do to make sure that the American public is safe.
Found on Reuters 5 years ago
I think everyone agrees that Robert Mueller is a straight shooter and beyond reproach. Robert Mueller's not shooting anybody's bullets for any particular reason or political agenda, i would like to think William Barr is doing the same. And if those two are in conflict, I will make my own decision from there.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
That would definitely change my approach and opinion and also my thought process about how I got to where I got to.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
We can not successfully address our climate challenge by eliminating sources of energy that countries are committed to using, only through innovating and developing new technologies that reduce carbon emissions will we truly make a difference.
Found on CNN 5 years ago
It's always a good thing if we can be home campaigning, we need to do that.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
There's a lot of people who were disappointed, and there are a lot of people who are very, very supportive and very happy.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Everyone’s trying to get some answers to a few things and we’ll go from there, we’ve talked and we’re still talking. There’s no decisions made on anything, I can assure you of that.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We are still talking, there are no decisions on anything. There are some concerns that people have and we're going to try to close the loop.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
Anybody who announces how they're going to vote before a President makes their appointment, there's no commonsense or reasoning in that whatsoever.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
When the hearing is over, I will want to call Brett Kavanaugh back in to sit down and go over basically what we heard today.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
He’s very popular in West Virginia, and I have not done too bad myself.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
We’re looking at critical things that are important to West Virginia, healthcare being a big one.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
She started choking. People cough, you think, well. And then started getting real red.' I can't breathe, I can't breathe,' i was big enough and tall enough to get some leverage on her and pick her up off her feet. I kept jerking and jerking and jerking until she said,' You're hurting me now.'.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
That's the most inhumane enforcement I've ever seen in my life, the American dream and hope of the world, where'd all that go ?
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It (endorsing her) was a mistake. It was a mistake politically, is this about me? Or trying to help a part of my state that’s never recovered and is having a tough time?
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I’m open to supporting the person who I think is best for my country and my state, if his policies are best, I’ll be right there.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I’m with him sometimes more than other Republican senators are with him.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It’s not me, if they’re going to adopt a policy up here they think is their winning ticket, I don’t think it’s a winning ticket for me at all.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
With a clear opponent now in Patrick Morrisey, we'll need to step up our game to fight back against the negative attacks that will surely be coming our way in November.
Found on Reuters 6 years ago
She has been a true soldier and done her job, she truly has, everything I've seen. But there's going to be other people that might have a different twist, I want to listen to them, but I believe -- I hope they show her the respect.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
I want Gina Haspel to come back in. I want to make sure I see the final report about Gina Haspel involvement in the destroying of the records.
Found on CNN 6 years ago
It means so much to have the support of both business leaders and labor in this campaign because there is so much more we can do when we are united, all sides must come together to create good-paying jobs with benefits for our people.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It’s obvious that there are n’t any significant financial saving here, we need to get the politics out of this.
Found on FOX News 6 years ago
Transparency in the public sector is much different than in the private sector, when you're in the public sector you have to gain the trust of constituents, those for and against you.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
There's no one who believes he's going to take their guns away.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
After considering his record, watching his testimony in front of the Judiciary Committee and meeting with him twice.
Found on CNN 7 years ago
Throughout Judge Gorsuch’s career, he has come to his legal rulings objectively, through the letter of the law rather than through his own opinion, i hold no illusions that I will agree with every decision Judge Gorsuch may issue in the future, but I have not found any reasons why this jurist should not be a Supreme Court Justice.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Senators have a constitutional obligation to advice (sic) and consent on a nominee to fill this Supreme Court vacancy and, simply put, we have a responsibility to do our jobs as elected officials, i will vote to confirm him to be the ninth justice on the Supreme Court.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
There is not one Democratic vote to repeal, i ’m not voting to repeal without a replacement.
Found on FOX News 7 years ago
I was humbled to be considered for the Secretary of Energy position, i have dedicated my life in public service to doing what is best for the people of West Virginia. Right now, I believe that I can best serve my state of West Virginia in the United States Senate.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
People felt they were abandoned, this gives them a chance to stand for them.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
The social rhetoric (of Trump) didn’t bother them because they were so mad at everything else.
Found on FOX News 8 years ago
No sentence is severe enough and no amount of time in jail time will heal the hearts of the families who have been forever devastated, and I pray that this sentence brings them some closure.
Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Forcing new coal-fired plants to meet standards when experts know that required technology is not sustainably operational on a commercial scale makes absolutely no sense.
Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I was very satisfied with an awful lot of the answers we received.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
At caucus yesterday I didn't get a reading there is hard, hard opposition. I did not.
Found on CNN 9 years ago
I was there five years ago when we upset the number one-ranked Kentucky team, and I have the utmost confidence that our tough WVU team can do it again. Hail West Virginia!
Found on Reuters 9 years ago
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