Joe Manchin | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Joe Manchin


00:02:15 1 Early life and education
00:03:32 2 Early political career
00:04:08 3 Governor of West Virginia
00:06:47 4 U.S. Senate
00:06:52 4.1 Elections
00:07:00 4.1.1 2010
00:07:49 4.1.2 2012
00:08:49 4.1.3 2018
00:09:55 4.2 Tenure
00:10:22 4.3 Political positions
00:11:31 4.3.1 Abortion
00:13:23 4.3.2 Afghanistan
00:14:08 4.3.3 Bipartisanship
00:15:29 4.3.4 China
00:16:14 4.3.5 Dodd-Frank
00:16:32 4.3.6 Donald Trump
00:17:36 4.3.7 Drugs
00:18:31 4.3.8 Energy and environment
00:24:42 4.3.9 Federal budget
00:25:18 4.3.10 Guns
00:26:33 4.3.11 Health care
00:28:14 4.3.12 Immigration
00:29:19 4.3.13 LGBT rights
00:30:39 4.3.14 Senior citizens
00:31:48 4.3.15 Supreme Court nominations
00:32:50 4.3.16 Taxes
00:33:29 4.3.17 Terrorism
00:33:56 4.4 Committee assignments
00:34:48 5 Personal life
00:35:31 6 Controversies
00:35:40 6.1 Heather Bresch
00:38:37 6.2 Family lawsuit
00:39:18 6.3 Manchin's coal interests
00:39:57 6.4 Skipping votes and convention



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Joseph Manchin III (born August 24, 1947) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from West Virginia, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010 and the 27th secretary of state of West Virginia from 2001 to 2005.
Manchin has been known throughout his career to be a moderate—or even conservative—Democrat, a fact which has allowed him to win elections in West Virginia even as the state shifted from one of the most heavily Democratic in the country to one of the most heavily Republican. He won the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election by a large margin and was re-elected with an even larger margin in 2008; in both years, Republican presidential candidates captured the majority of West Virginia's votes. Manchin won the special election in 2010 to fill the seat vacated by Senator Robert Byrd when he died in office. Manchin was elected to a full term in 2012 with 60 percent of the vote, and was later reelected in 2018 by a much narrower margin. Manchin became the state's senior U.S. Senator when Jay Rockefeller retired in 2015.
As a member of Congress, Manchin is known for his bipartisanship, voting or working with Republicans on issues such as abortion and gun ownership. He opposed the energy policies of President Barack Obama, voted against the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010, voted for removing federal funding from Planned Parenthood in 2015, and voted to confirm most of Republican President Donald Trump's cabinet and judicial appointees. He remains the only Democrat in the Senate to oppose same-sex marriage. However, Manchin has repeatedly voted against attempts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as Obamacare), voted to preserve funding for Planned Parenthood in 2017, and voted against the 2017 Republican tax plan. Manchin has complained about the "toxic" lack of bipartisanship in Congress on almost every issue; "liberal activists argue he is too conservative for the Democratic Party, while Republicans argue he is too liberal for West Virginia."