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Rob Portman

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Rob Portman is an American politician and attorney currently serving as the junior United States senator from Ohio, a position he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Portman previously represented Ohio's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2005. He also served as the U.S. Trade Representative under President George W. Bush from 2005 to 2006, where he focused on trade policy and international negotiations.

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Jul 24, 2017

the level of depravity that exists within that regime.

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Jul 24, 2017

I hope we will redouble our efforts to work on that, because the alternative is frightening.

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Jul 24, 2017

Director Coates has now outlined in his worldwide threat assessment that just came out a couple of months ago that North Korea's record of sharing dangerous nuclear and missile technology with state sponsors of terrorism, including Iran…

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Jul 17, 2017

We need to broaden the base, we need to lower the rate, we need a simpler system, we need a fair system.

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Jul 17, 2017

We do not focus enough on 'why?' And a lot of it has to do with the very real problems in our current economy.

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Jul 17, 2017

This has been terrific, and I enjoyed hearing the testimony from all four of you.

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Jul 16, 2017

I think that the threats we talked about do present a national security threat to the United States of America.

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Jul 13, 2017

I rise today to speak about an issue that Members on both sides of this aisle have a deep concern about, and that is human sex trafficking and, specifically, the work we have done to try to stop one website called backpage.com from selling…

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Jun 26, 2017

I continue to have real concerns about the Medicaid policies in this bill especially those that impact drug treatment at a time when Ohio is facing an opioid epidemic.

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Jun 21, 2017

I rise today to talk about a promising young man from Wyoming, OH--just outside of Cincinnati, my hometown--a young man whose life was drastically cut short at just 22 years of age. I rise to talk about Otto Warmbier. Otto had all the…

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Jun 20, 2017

I am excited about the opportunity to improve the agreement from our perspective.

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Jun 20, 2017

Do no harm is part of your objective here.

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