Joe Manchin
American politician and businessman
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| 2025 | Manchin concludes his tenure in the U.S. Senate, announcing he has no plans to run for political office in the future. |
| 2025 | Concluded his service as a United States Senator from West Virginia after 15 years in the role. |
| 2025 | Joe Manchin's tenure on the Committee on Appropriations is set to conclude. |
| 2025 | Joe Manchin's service on the Committee on Armed Services will conclude. |
| 2025 | Joe Manchin is expected to conclude his service on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. |
| 2025 | Joe Manchin's tenure on the Committee on Veterans' Affairs is also set to end. |
| 2024 | Manchin becomes an Independent after Kamala Harris loses the presidential election to Donald Trump. |
| 2024 | Joe Manchin became an Independent after serving as the only Democrat in statewide partisan office in West Virginia from 2021. |
| 2024 | Joe Manchin confirmed that he would not run for reelection in 2024 but stated he would remain active in politics, aiming to mobilize the middle and unite Americans. |
| 2024 | After Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running mate, Joe Manchin remarked that he could think of no one better than Governor Walz to help bring the country closer together, though he refrained from formally endorsing Harris. |
| 2024 | Joe Manchin ultimately refused to endorse Kamala Harris, citing her call to end the filibuster in the United States Senate. |
| 2024 | Manchin left the Democratic Party to become an independent and later announced that he would not run for any office. |
| 2024 | Jim Justice won the West Virginia Senate seat that Joe Manchin vacated. |
| December 2024 | Manchin revealed that he only supported the Inflation Reduction Act after the Russian invasion of Ukraine due to the global energy crisis. |
| July 2024 | Joe Manchin and John Barrasso introduced S. 4753, the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024, aimed at expediting the permitting process for energy infrastructure and mineral development. |
| July 21 2024 | After President Biden withdrew from the 2024 race on July 21, 2024, Joe Manchin expressed interest in running for president at the 2024 Democratic National Convention. |
| May 31 2024 | Joe Manchin announced that he would leave the Democratic Party and file as an independent while continuing to be a member of the Senate Democratic Caucus. He criticized both the Republican and Democratic parties for 'partisan extremism' and expressed his intention to fight for a 'sensible majority' in America. |
| February 16 2024 | On February 16, 2024, Joe Manchin announced that he would not run for president. |
| February 15 2024 | On February 15, 2024, Joe Manchin, during a City Club of Cleveland forum, stated he would pick U.S. senator Mitt Romney or former U.S. senator Rob Portman as his running mate if he ran for president. |
| November 2023 | The Associated Press noted Manchin as 'the last in a line of formidable West Virginia Democrats who promoted coal interests'. |
| November 9 2023 | On November 9, 2023, Joe Manchin announced that he would not seek reelection in 2024, stating that the decision came after months of deliberation and conversations with his family. |
| August 2023 | Joe Manchin publicly expressed his opposition to both major political parties during a radio interview with Hoppy Kercheval, indicating he was considering becoming an independent. |
| July 17 2023 | On July 17, 2023, Joe Manchin and former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman Jr. headlined a No Labels Common Sense Agenda Town Hall in Manchester, New Hampshire. |
| June 2023 | Joe Manchin reiterated his refusal to rule out a presidential run as a third-party candidate, indicating ongoing deliberation about his political future. |
| May 2023 | Joe Manchin refused to rule out running for president as a third-party candidate, signaling his potential shift away from seeking reelection in 2024. |
| March 2023 | Vowed to sue the Biden administration over electric vehicle tax credit implementation. |
| February 2023 | Joe Manchin was reported to be 'livid' over the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act by the Biden administration, particularly regarding delays in new guidelines for electric vehicle tax credits. |
| January 2023 | Responded to IRS delay in implementing electric vehicle tax credits by introducing a bill to halt the credit until battery requirements could be established. |
| 2022 | Former Republican President Donald Trump stated in a Truth Social post that Joe Manchin should have been brought into the Republican Party long ago. |
| 2022 | In November, Manchin reversed his previous stance and voted to advance the Respect for Marriage Act, legislation that safeguards same-sex marriages at the federal level. |
| August 16 2022 | President Joe Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law. |
| August 7 2022 | The Senate passed the Inflation Reduction Act on a 51–50 vote, with Joe Manchin voting in favor and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. |
| July 27 2022 | Joe Manchin expressed his support for the Inflation Reduction Act, which was a result of negotiations with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and included climate change, healthcare, and tax reform proposals. |
| June 2022 | After the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision overturned Roe v. Wade, Manchin expressed disappointment, claiming that Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, whom he had previously supported, misled him about their stance on abortion rights. |
| May 2022 | Manchin announced he would vote against his party's bill, the Women's Health Protection Act, stating that it went too far, although he would support a narrower measure that included codifying Roe. |
| March 2022 | During the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Manchin led the drafting of the Ban Russian Energy Imports Act, aimed at banning fossil fuel imports from Russia. |
| March 25 2022 | Manchin announced he would vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. |
| March 25 2022 | Joe Manchin announced his vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. |
| February 2022 | Manchin was the only Democratic senator to vote against the Women's Health Protection Act, a proposal that aimed to limit states' ability to restrict abortion access. |
| February 6 2022 | Manchin endorsed Senator Lisa Murkowski in her reelection campaign, and Murkowski indicated she would endorse him if he ran for reelection in 2024. |
| January 2022 | In January 2022, it was reported that Joe Manchin spent heavily on private security due to becoming a prime target for progressive protesters regarding his blocking of a reconciliation package in the Senate during the last three months of 2021. |
| 2021 | Joe Manchin's role on the Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans concluded. |
| 2021 | Joe Manchin voted to convict Donald Trump in the second impeachment trial. |
| 2021 | While opposing the Biden-supported Build Back Better bill, several Republicans urged Joe Manchin to join their party during various media appearances. |
| 2021 | Manchin opposed the 'Clean Electricity Performance Program' in a budget reconciliation bill, which led to its removal from the bill. |
| 2021 | During the early portion of the Biden administration, Joe Manchin's voting alignment with President Biden became significant, as he voted with Biden's position 87.9% of the time, amidst a Senate evenly divided between Democratic and Republican members. |
| December 2021 | Joe Manchin signaled his opposition to the Biden-supported Build Back Better Act, stating, 'I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.' He cited growing inflation, national debt, and the Omicron variant as reasons for his decision. |
| November 2021 | Climate change protesters surrounded Manchin's car in a parking garage, highlighting tensions over his political stance. |
| October 2021 | Protesters in kayaks swarmed Manchin's yacht at a Washington marina, demonstrating opposition to his political positions. |
| October 2021 | Richard Luscombe from The Guardian characterized Manchin as a Democrat in name only, due to his opposition to Biden's Build Back Better Act. |
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