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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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Feb 10, 2016

That legislation, called CARA, Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act, just passed the Judiciary Committee while you were testifying, and it passed, as I understand it, by a voice vote.

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Feb 10, 2016

I hope you will support it. I hope you will get behind it.

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Feb 10, 2016

I think that is important too, at the Federal level, to provide that.

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Feb 9, 2016

I rise today to simply say to Chairman Grassley and the Judiciary Committee: Thank you for being willing this week to have a markup and to legislate and report out a bill with regard to the prescription drug and heroin epidemic we now face…

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Feb 9, 2016

We have to have a broader reform of our tax code in order to be competitive.

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Feb 9, 2016

Ninety-one percent of our allocation has now been drawn down.

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Feb 9, 2016

I think if we wait a couple years, which is what a lot of people are saying, we are going to lose so many more businesses.

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Feb 3, 2016

To me, it is not just a matter, as important as it is, of personal data being taken by probably, as we understand it, Chinese hackers, but it is a national security issue.

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Feb 2, 2016

I ask unanimous consent that the Select Committee on Intelligence be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on February 2, 2016, at 2:45 p.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. subcommittee on…

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Feb 2, 2016

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on February 2, 2016, at 2 p.m., in room SD-226 of the…

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Feb 2, 2016

Our national debt, which is approaching $19 trillion.

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Feb 2, 2016

I ask unanimous consent that the Committee on Armed Services be authorized to meet during the session of the Senate on February 2, 2016, at 10 a.m. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. committee on foreign relations

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