Overheard: Sink or Swim With Joe Manchin – Roll Call

Overheard: Sink or Swim With Joe Manchin

(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

By Warren Rojas

Posted December 2, 2014 at 12:26pm

“We go out in the middle of the Potomac, and that way nobody can jump or swim. They’ve gotta talk.”

— West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin III shares the secret to the bipartisan shindigs held aboard his houseboat on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

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