Rob Portman: “It would be nice if in one day in this Congress we could come together, join arms as Republicans and as Democrats, and…”

“It would be nice if in one day in this Congress we could come together, join arms as Republicans and as Democrats, and do something that is good for all of our constituents, which we have done up to this point on this legislation, both in terms of the subcommittee hearings, in terms of the committee hearings, the committee markup, in terms of working with outside groups to come together and bring people together, rather than making it a partisan issue, rather than again raising issues that are going to confuse and muddy the waters as we try to send a strong bipartisan signal to the U.S. Senate and to the President that this phone tax is one we want to repeal and we want to get it done this year.”