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.

Joe Manchin

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.

Our tax code should not favor red-state or blue-state elites with loopholes like SALT.

I would hope they would look at it with, let's say, with clear lenses.

When that 9.1 came in, I said,' I can't, I just can't do it,' that's when Chuck got upset.

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.'.

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.

Our tempers get a little bit ahead of us at times.

This bill is fighting inflation and it's got a whole set of collateral benefits as well.

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.

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 ?

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.

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.

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.

I'm sorry to say it has become crystal clear that the' pause' is in fact a' ban,'.

Alex Mooney has proven Alex Mooney's all about Alex Mooney. But West Virginians know David McKinley is all about us.

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.

Alex Mooney has proven that Alex Mooney's all about Alex Mooney.

David McKinley has always opposed reckless spending because it doesn't make sense for West Virginia.

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.

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.