125 Facts About Democratic Senators

1. On December 18, 2010, Jon Tester voted in favor of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010.

2. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday that her husband's views on President Donald Trump's appointment of acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker are "not relevant", just days after he called the move unconstitutional in a New York Times op-ed.

3. Joe Manchin spoke in front of a full room at the winter meeting, which, earlier in the day, included a session called "Inconvenient Facts: How Rising Temperature and Increasing CO2 are Benefiting the Earth and Humanity" on its schedule.

4. Joe Manchin was the first Democrat to announce that he would meet with Trump's second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.

5. On July 20, 2010, Joe Manchin announced he would seek the Senate seat.

6. Kellyanne Conway was supposed to be the keynote speaker at a GOP gathering at Villa Penna.

7. Joe Manchin told reporters he'd join Republicans in supporting McNamee, and other Democrats said they expected the vote to proceed.

8. On November 10, 2016, Kellyanne Conway tweeted publicly that Trump had offered her a White House job.

9. In 2014, Kellyanne Conway coauthored a memo for the pro-amnesty group FWD.

10. Joe Manchin announced his intention to challenge incumbent Democratic Governor, Bob Wise, in the 2004 Democratic primary election in May 2003.

11. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Sunday President Donald Trump does know the man he has appointed as his acting attorney general, after all.

12. Joe Manchin has delivered a jar of jam to a Republican foe.

13. Kellyanne Conway credits her experience working for eight summers on a blueberry farm in Hammonton, New Jersey, for teaching her a strong work ethic.

14. Joe Manchin was a childhood friend of Alabama Crimson Tide football coach Nick Saban and they are still close friends to this day.

15. In January 2018, Joe Manchin was one of six Democrats who broke with their party to vote to confirm Trump's nominee for Health Secretary, Alex Azar.

16. In January 2018, Jon Tester was the only Democratic Senator from a Republican-leaning state to oppose a stopgap funding measure to end a three-day government shutdown and reopen the federal government.

17. In 2015, Joe Manchin announced that he would seek re-election to the Senate in 2018.

18. Joe Manchin was widely seen as a vulnerable Democrat in a purple state in the 2018 midterms, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell singled him out as a target, according to the new book "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House", written by former White House adviser Cliff Sims.

19. Kellyanne Conway told CNN she was only tweeting what she has shared with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect Mike Pence in private.

20. In 2005, Jon Tester was elected president of the Montana Senate, the chief presiding officer of the Montana Legislature's upper chamber.

21. Joe Manchin tweeted that he was on a Skype video chat with students from Webster County High School when the president phoned him.

22. In June 2011, Joe Manchin joined Senator Chuck Schumer in seeking a crackdown on Bitcoin currency transactions, saying that they facilitated illegal drug trade transactions.

23. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin is fighting for his seat in the Senate while pro-gun groups are backing his Republican opponent.

24. Joe Manchin was sworn in as governor on January 17, 2005.

25. Joe Manchin joined all 12 Republicans on the committee to vote in favor of moving McNamee's nomination to the Senate for a final vote.

26. Kellyanne Conway has regularly spouted off alternative facts with her platform, but today on Fox News she hit a new low.

27. In 2018, Joe Manchin was one of 17 Democrats to break with their party and vote with Republicans to ease the Dodd-Frank banking rules.

28. Joe Manchin submitted a formal challenge Monday to the Mobility Fund Phase II initial eligible areas map, the only lawmaker to do so.

29. Joe Manchin announced he was voting against Health and Human Services nominee Tom Price.

30. Kellyanne Conway will headline a rally in Sterling Heights, which starts at 7 pm Thursday.

31. Kellyanne Conway spoke badly of Booker despite her boss Trump's numerous attacks on his 2016 presidential opponent Hillary Clinton and women in other contexts.

32. Joe Manchin has offered various opinions about the merits of a border wall over time.

33. Joe Manchin was one of only two Democrats to vote for the confirmation of now-disgraced former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, and the West Virginia Democrat has sided with Republicans often on environmental and energy policy.

34. Joe Manchin says Amtrak has created a financial hardship for the Collis P Huntington Railroad Historical Society, causing its employees to be laid off and the organization to close its doors.

35. Joe Manchin was widely seen as a vulnerable Democrat in a purple state in the 2018 midterms, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell singled him out as a target, according to the new book "Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House", written by former White House adviser Cliff Sims.

36. Joe Manchin won the 2004 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.

37. Joe Manchin was the only Democrat to break from his party and vote in favor of the Republican proposal.

38. Joe Manchin was one of the few Democratic legislators attending the event who applauded the president's call to action.

39. Joe Manchin is opposed to the DREAM Act, and was absent from a 2010 vote on the bill.

40. Joe Manchin sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee which oversees the industry that fills his pockets.

41. Joe Manchin became the state's senior Senator when Jay Rockefeller retired in 2015.

42. In January 2018, Joe Manchin joined two other Democrats and the majority of Republicans by voting in favor of a bill to ban abortion after 20 weeks.

43. Joe Manchin served as president of Energysystems in the late 1990s before becoming active in politics.

44. Kellyanne Conway said Democratic Senator Cory Booker would be called "sexist" if he was a Republican running against the Democratic women candidates.

45. Joe Manchin was challenged in the Democratic primary by Paula Jean Swearengin.

46. Joe Manchin voted against that bill, which failed in the Senate.

47. Joe Manchin put the phone on speaker, allowing Trump to speak to the group.

48. Joe Manchin introduced legislation to reduce the use of overseas service and security contractors.

49. Joe Manchin has voted with Republicans on issues such as abortion and gun ownership.

50. In 2012 Joe Manchin supported a GOP effort to "scuttle Environmental Protection Agency regulations that mandate cuts in mercury pollution and other toxic emissions from coal-fired power plants", while West Virginia's other senator, Jay Rockefeller, did not.

51. Joe Manchin has voted against raising the federal debt ceiling.

52. Kellyanne Conway used exactly the same tactics when Trump was running for president.

53. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway responded on Sunday to the rumblings that Hillary Clinton is considering another presidential run in 2020, reports Mediaite.

54. Kellyanne Conway has a new and ridiculous defense for the White House sharing a video to make it look like a CNN journalist hit an intern.

55. Joe Manchin was born in 1947 in Farmington, West Virginia, a small coal mining town, the second of five children of Mary O and John Manchin.

56. Joe Manchin named Democratic strategist Chris Kofinis to be his chief of staff.

57. Kellyanne Conway made his remarks in an interview with Yahoo News's Michael Isikoff on the Skullduggery.

58. Joe Manchin has a lifetime score of 45 percent from the League of Conservation Voters, a group that spent more than $28 million on House and Senate candidates in the 2018 election cycle.

59. Joe Manchin said he supports the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, a 600-mile-long pipeline being built through West Virginia.

60. Joe Manchin voted against all three amendments to repeal the health care law in July 2017.

61. Joe Manchin is a member of the National Rifle Association and a licensed pilot.

62. Joe Manchin sits on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and supports a comprehensive, all-of-the-above energy approach that uses coal.

63. In December 2010, Jon Tester voted against the DREAM Act, which would have created a pathway to citizenship for the foreign-born children of illegal immigrants.

64. Joe Manchin previously used a gun prop in a 2010 political ad where he tapped in a bolt-action hunting rifle to take shots at a proposed cap-and-trade bill then in the US House, saying it was bad for West Virginia.

65. Joe Manchin releases video in response to Trump's rally in Huntington.

66. Joe Manchin won the special election in 2010 to fill the seat vacated by Senator Robert Byrd when he died in office.

67. Joe Manchin entered electoral politics in 1982, when he successfully ran for the West Virginia House of Delegates.

68. In 2011, Jon Tester was one of two Democratic Senators to filibuster the American Jobs Act.

69. Joe Manchin was one of four Democratic senators to vote against the Stream Protection Rule.

70. Joe Manchin insisted over and over that his vote wasn't based on politics.

71. Joe Manchin became West Virginia's governor, and records show Mylan benefitted from corporate tax-breaks worth millionsin the state during Manchin's gubernatorial tenure.

72. Joe Manchin is a licensed pilot and a member of the National Rifle Association.

73. Joe Manchin chose to stand for reelection to a full term in 2012.

74. Kellyanne Conway is the first woman to have run a successful US presidential campaign.

75. Joe Manchin previously wrote in Amtrak in April 2018 about the decision to stop accepting private and charter trains.

76. Joe Manchin stood and cheered a call to ban late-term abortions during President Donald Trump's Tuesday night State of the Union address.

77. Joe Manchin previously told the New York Times that he spoke with Trump in December 2016, saying the President shared there was a "complete opportunity" for new gun control legislation.

78. Joe Manchin sponsored the National Yellow Dot Act to create a voluntary program that would alert emergency services personnel responding to car accidents of the availability of personal and medical information on the car's owner.

79. Joe Manchin successfully amended the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act to cap contractors' taxpayer funded salaries at $230,000.

80. Joe Manchin told Politico he threatened to pull his support for Clinton after those remarks, but her pledge to invest $20 billion in West Virginia won him over.

81. Joe Manchin supports the construction of a wall along the southern border of the United States.

82. Joe Manchin voted to advance the measure to a final vote.

83. Joe Manchin was criticized for having announced his intention to confirm Kavanaugh only after it was clear Republicans had enough votes to confirm without him.

84. Joe Manchin said there "might be" additional Democrats who could vote for the White House proposal but acknowledged that he wasn't sure.

85. In June 2017, Joe Manchin voted to support President Trump's $350 billion arms deal with Saudi Arabia.

86. In 2016, Jon Tester voted against a Democrat-sponsored proposal that would have required background checks for purchases at gun shows and for purchases of guns online nationwide.

87. President Donald Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway was unable to attend a Republican rally Thursday night in Sterling Heights due to an aircraft malfunction.

88. In 2010, Joe Manchin called for "repairs" of the Affordable Care Act and repeal of the "bad parts of Obamacare".

89. Joe Manchin released his decision and statement just minutes after Maine Republican Senator Susan Collins revealed that she will vote yes for Kavanaugh.

90. Joe Manchin said he consulted with Collins during his decision-making process.

91. Joe Manchin is close on all three measurements of Trump's support in West Virginia.

92. In 2011, Joe Manchin was the only Democratic senator to support the proposed Energy Tax Prevention Act, which sought to prohibit the United States Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas.

93. Joe Manchin has praised Trump as someone who gets things done and has criticized President Obama, once not attending a meeting Obama held with Congressional Democrats on Obamacare, The Daily Caller reported.

94. Joe Manchin will vote against West Virginia's pro-life ballot referendum.

95. Joe Manchin was the first Democrat to say he would vote for Trump's first nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch.

96. Joe Manchin worked with Senator Pat Toomey to introduce legislation that would require a background check for most gun sales.

97. On December 22, 2016, Trump announced that Kellyanne Conway would join his administration as Counselor to the President.

98. Joe Manchin was chairman of the Southern States Energy Board, state's chair of the Appalachian Regional Commission and chairman of the Interstate Mining Compact Commission.

99. Kellyanne Conway changes Twitter bio amid media coverage of her husband's Trump criticism.

100. Joe Manchin was elected to a full term in office with 60 percent of the vote in November 2012.

101. Joe Manchin was the only Democrat joining Republicans in approving the nomination.

102. Joe Manchin replied that he should support his Miners Protection Act, which would secure health benefits and pension funds for retired miners.

103. Kellyanne Conway sees her husband's anti-Trump statements as a violation of their marriage: interviewer.

104. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway responded to a report that Hillary Clinton might run again in 2020.

105. Joe Manchin has mixed ratings from both pro-choice and pro-life political action groups.

106. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday that he was undecided and would wait until after a Trump administration briefing Wednesday morning to decide how he.

107. Senator Joe Manchin lost a lot of former supporters when he was pushing gun legislation.

108. Kellyanne Conway was expected to advise Trump on how to better appeal to female voters.

109. Joe Manchin voted with Republicans to water-down the Dodd-Frank banking rules introduced after the financial crash of 2008.

110. In 2018, Jon Tester became one of the few Democrats in the Senate supporting a bill that would relax "key banking regulations".

111. Joe Manchin was born in 1947 in Farmington, West Virginia, a small town in the northern part of the state.

112. Kellyanne Conway appeared on Fox News Sunday this morning with more of her patented alternative facts.

113. On February 2, 2017, Kellyanne Conway appeared in a television news show interview on Hardball with Chris Matthews.

114. Joe Manchin has taken heat before from his opponents over Mylan's decision a few years ago to jack up the price of allergy drug EpiPen by 500 percent.

115. Joe Manchin is a small person, but in 1996, he made a big difference.

116. Joe Manchin was sworn in by Vice President Joe Biden on November 15, 2010, succeeding interim Senator Carte Goodwin.

117. West Virginia Democrat Joe Manchin told reporters in the Capitol on Tuesday that he was undecided and would wait until after a Trump administration briefing Wednesday morning to decide how he would vote.

118. Joe Manchin is an advocate of gun control and has worked with Republicans to introduce stringent requirements for gun sales.

119. Joe Manchin criticized Democratic leader Harry Reid when Reid criticized Trump, saying Reid should let someone else take over in leading the party, according to the Daily Caller.

120. Kellyanne Conway brushed off questions on her husband's recent New York Times op-ed declaring Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker's appointment unconstitutional, making light of the editorial that underscored the couple's political differences.

121. Joe Manchin released a video Friday in response to President Donald Trump's rally in Huntington.

122. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway was back at it again with her verbal gymnastics Sunday.

123. Kellyanne Conway stated the next day that she meant to say "Bowling Green terrorists", both of whom had pleaded guilty to carrying out and supporting attacks on American soldiers in Iraq.

124. Joe Manchin is known to be one of the more conservative Democrats in Congress, sometimes siding with Republicans on high-profile, partisan issues.

125. Joe Manchin became the state's senior US Senator when Jay Rockefeller retired in 2015.