Category: Sen. Joe Manchin

Democrats Criticize Biden’s Failed Climate Promises in Approving Alaska Willow Oil Project

The Biden administration’s decision to approve a 30-year oil-drilling project has sparked criticism from Democrats—and particularly progressives—from both chambers of Congress. The Department of the Interior (DOI) approved the Willow Project on Monday, allowing oil giant ConocoPhillips to move forward with a drilling plan within a northeastern section of the 23 million acres of the…


Manchin Won’t Back Biden’s Interior Department Pick

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said on March 10 that he will not advance Laura Daniel-Davis’ nomination to be the assistant secretary for lands and minerals management at the Interior Department. Manchin made the announcement in an op-ed published in the Houston Chronicle, where he stated he…


Manchin to Decide Political Future in December

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will decide at the end of this year whether or not he runs against President Joe Biden in the next presidential election or for reelection, the lawmaker has said. “There’s plenty of time for the elections,” Manchin said in an interview with CBS’s “Face The Nation” on March 5. “This is the problem…


‘It’s All of Our Fault’ Manchin Says of Debt, Calls for Bipartisan Action

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) broke with the Democrat party line by calling for future spending cuts along with an increase to the nation’s debt ceiling. “The American people have had enough of the accounting gimmicks and budgetary games that we play in Congress, and it’s got to stop,” Manchin said, decrying the $31.4 trillion national debt…


‘We Have to Pay Our Sins’: Lawmakers Must Negotiate Way Out of US Debt Crisis: Sen. Manchin

Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has called on Republican and Democrat lawmakers to work together and resolve the debt crisis facing the United States, pointing out that both Trump and Biden have contributed to ballooning the country’s debt. America’s debt has hit the $31.4 trillion ceiling and it now needs to be raised, which requires lawmakers…


Democrat Senator Gives Support for GOP Effort to Rescind ‘Soft-on-Crime’ DC Law

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) became the first Democrat to openly express support for a Republican-led effort to rescind a contentious Washington, D.C., crime law—a code that had been vetoed by District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser in a move subsequently overruled by D.C.’s City Council. The Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA), which…


Manchin and Cruz Introduce Bipartisan Gas Stove Protection Legislation

Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced bipartisan legislation that would protect the use of gas stoves. Cruz, who is the incoming Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, and Manchin, who is the Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Gas Stove Protection and Freedom…


Bipartisan Bill Introduced to Protect US Strategic Petroleum Reserve

Chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), in a bipartisan effort led with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), on Wednesday introduced legislation to prohibit the Biden administration selling crude oil from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China or any company controlled by China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party…


‘Hate Speech’ Laws Coming Soon to the United States, Democrats Advocating Alongside World Economic Forum Participants

Multiple participants at the ongoing annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, suggested instituting free speech limitations as a way to deal with alleged hate speech and the continuing polarization of opinions. While speaking at “The Clear and Present Danger of Disinformation” panel, Vera Jourova, vice president for values and transparency at the…


Senate Votes Against Attaching Manchin’s Pro-Oil and Gas Energy Bill to Defense Funding Legislation

The Senate on Dec. 16 blocked Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-W.Va.) attaching amended legislation promoting oil and gas drilling to the National Defense Authorization Act, despite President Joe Biden’s support for it. Manchin was striving to get his energy measure attached to the defense funding bill, but the 47–47 vote defeated that objective. Sixty votes were required…