Rob Portman actually said...

"I agree with former Secretary of the Treasury, Larry Summers, and many other economists who said at the time, a year ago, that adding that kind of stimulus at a time when the economy was growing... wo..."

"Deficit reduction. Nobody wants to talk about it much anymore, but it is incredibly important."

"It seems to me that more stimulus is not the way to go but instead for us to figure out how to get inflation down by expanding our economic growth."

"This allows us to legislate much more productively, get things done in the health care space, and it is critical for respecting, in my view, the religious and ethical and moral beliefs of so many Amer..."