WASHINGTON – After years of negotiations, Joe Manchin and another U.S. Senator have introduced a permitting reform bill that could speed approvals of energy and infrastructure projects.
Unfortunately, in West Virginia, there are few healthcare options for veterans suffering from PTSD – across the entire state, veterans only have access to four VA medical centers.
As chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) conducted a hearing May 11 to examine ways Congress can update and expedite permitting.
What we need now is to double down on attracting new workers to fill the thousands of jobs coming to the Mountain State. What we don’t need are California-style labor policies — the policies that thousands of workers are currently escaping from — being forced on us from the federal level.
CHARLESTON – He still hasn’t officially entered the gubernatorial race, but a recent poll shows West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey leads all Republican contenders.
CHARLESTON – While he still doesn’t think any federal voting rights legislation will pass, but West Virginia Secretary of State said he’s glad U.S. Senator Joe Manchin is holding steady on his opposition to filibuster reform.
CHARLESTON – Lawmakers, politicians, community leaders and interested groups – locally and nationally – are throwing their two cents in regarding Sen. Joe Manchin’s decision not to support the Biden administration’s Build Back Better Act.
U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has a better understanding of inflation than the average layman and is speaking out about the dangerous inflationary potential of the Build Back Better Act.
WASHINGTON – Two new government reports on rising inflation and the cost of the Biden administration’s legislative agenda has political observers looking squarely at U.S. Senator Joe Manchin.
CHARLESTON – A federal 4th Circuit appeals court judge and West Virginia native has rescinded his plan to become a senior status judge and will remain on the bench.
CHARLESTON –Republicans were successful in blocking U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s Freedom to Vote Act earlier this week thanks, at least in part, to Manchin’s staunch support of maintaining current filibuster rules.
For the Freedom to Vote Act to avoid the same fate as the For the People Act, the 50 Senate Democrats need 10 Republicans to support it to avoid another filibuster. That seems unlikely, so the other option for Democrats is to eliminate the legislative filibuster to allow the measure to pass on a party line vote.
CHARLESTON – In an opinion piece, two conservatives say U.S. Senator Joe Manchin shouldn’t support the latest version of the For the People Act because his fellow Democrats have turned the election legislation into a power grab.
