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.

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Inflation is a tax. This is war.

Joe Manchin

I would gladly pay ten cents a gallon( more).

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

This is something real upfront, right now, we can do immediately, is to take care of the financial problems we have.

Joe Manchin

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,'.

Joe Manchin

I'm endorsing my dear friend Lisa Murkowski. Alaska could only be so lucky to have her continue to serve Lisa Murkowski.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

Could we have some discipline in the votes, ever ? you’re in charge !

Joe Manchin

Almost certainly we'll have a bipartisan bill there, fix what happened, the insurrection, stop that from ever happening again.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

It's not going to change the makeup of the court.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

We should all support the right the vote, everyone, but not breaking the rules to make new rules.

Joe Manchin

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.

Joe Manchin

As such, and as I have said many times before, I will not vote to eliminate or weaken the filibuster.

Joe Manchin