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Joe Manchin

Former U.S. Senator, United States Senate · 1 appearance on the record.

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Joe Manchin served as Governor of West Virginia and as a U.S. Senator, operating as a critical centrist swing vote on landmark federal legislation. After leaving Congress, he co-launched the Independent Leadership Council and published the memoir Dead Center: In Defense of Common Sense.

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1 disclosure · every statement was checked. none of them is a claim the record can settle: opinions, insights and disclosures never carry an assessment.

Everything Joe Manchin said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Disclosure
Manchin: I Cannot Vote to Continue with Build Back Better
“If I can't go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can't vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. I just can't. I've tried everything humanly possible. I can't get there.”
Joe Manchin Jan 7, 2022 ▶ 3:41 Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?

The other half of the tape: Joe Manchin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 33 times in 10 episodes on the Green Blueprint. 8 statements on the record name them. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most John Hickenlooper 10Katherine Hamilton 8Stephen Lacey 7Emily Domenech 3Jeff St. John 2Ramez Naam 1Julia Piper 1Andrew Friedman 1

Statements about Joe Manchin, by other people (8)

Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hickenlooper: Manchin secretly remained in IRA talks despite public walkout
“He told the press he was out, he was done. I saw him the next morning, had a nice, 15 minute happy chat, and I said, well, you're not really Over, you're not quitting, right? And he goes, no, but I'm going to let him think it for a while. Just I need space. Yo…”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 4:15 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Domenech: IRA risks Republican targeting unless Chinese subsidy access is fixed
“When you have somebody like on the left, Senator Joe Manchin, who made the IRA possible, pushing back aggressively against the Biden administration in terms of how they've implemented the law, concerns about You know, foreign companies, Chinese companies that …”
Emily Domenech Apr 26, 2024 ▶ 12:16 Political Climate: Is the IRA under political threat?
Assertion Partly supported
Hamilton: Schumer Agreed to Manchin's $1.5 Trillion Spending Framework
“And Joe Manchin said, I'm happy to do it at one and a half trillion dollars, and here are all the things I'm willing to support. Here are the things I would not support. And Chuck Schumer agreed to all of those.”
Katherine Hamilton Jan 7, 2022 ▶ 2:23 Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
Assertion Supported
Fifty U.S. senators completely oppose passing climate legislation, notes Hamilton
“It's not just Joe Manchin, it's 50 members of the U.S. Senate do not want to pass climate legislation, ok? That's half of our Senate, half of the people that are elected to run our highest body legislatively do not want climate action”
Katherine Hamilton Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 21:25 Are Biden’s climate ambitions in Congress dead?
Opinion
Hamilton: Expecting Manchin to Back a $4T Bill Was Unrealistic
“And he's moved a little bit on them, but he was not going to move a lot, and so when a close to four trillion dollar bill was introduced with the hopes that Joe Manchin would come along, it was not very realistic.”
Katherine Hamilton Jan 7, 2022 ▶ 2:43 Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
Assertion Supported
Lacey: Joe Manchin received more fossil fuel money than any senator
“He's received more oil, coal, and gas money than any other senator this election cycle, a sign of the power he holds right now.”
Stephen Lacey Jan 7, 2022 ▶ 12:35 Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away?
Assertion Supported
Manchin and Schumer signed $1.5T Build Back Better framework in 2021
“July of twenty-twenty-one, Senators Manchin and Schumer signed an agreement where Manchin said, here are all the things I'm willing to put, 1.5 trillion dollars worth of things into this Build Back Better package. Chuck Schumer signed off on it, and at that po…”
Katherine Hamilton Jul 19, 2022 ▶ 6:27 Are Biden’s climate ambitions in Congress dead?
Assertion Supported
Lacey: Form Energy has raised nearly $1B from investors
“Form has also brought in the enthusiastic support of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, and the company has raised nearly a billion dollars from investors who are eager to back a company with the potential to change the market for batteries.”
Stephen Lacey Jul 12, 2023 ▶ 5:49 A groundbreaking battery nears industrial scale

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2024 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2023 16 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
The obscure federal agency hindering climate legislation Jun 1, 2022 22s

Played on the show (3)

Episodes where a recording of Joe Manchin was played rather than Joe taking part, or where the tape carries an address with nobody putting questions to them. Listed because the words are on the record, kept out of every score on this page because they were not said on this show. We read this off the tape: who was spoken to, who was asked something, who answered whom.

EpisodeDateOn tapeWhat it is
America is finally doing something big on climate Aug 10, 2022 20s clip played
Are Biden’s climate ambitions in Congress dead? Jul 19, 2022 23s clip played
Are Biden’s climate ambitions slipping away? Jan 7, 2022 16s clip played
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