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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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Nov 30, 2015

I think that is coming out here today.

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Nov 30, 2015

But that does not mean that we should sit back and simply not react, because I do think you are going to see an erosion...

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Nov 30, 2015

I do not see how you can say that is good. I mean, that should make you want to look at our tax code...

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Nov 30, 2015

I mean, we could do a number of things to get wages up. But every economic study I have seen says the same thing, which is, if you do in fact go with a pro-growth tax reform on the business side, you are going to see the benefit go to the…

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Nov 30, 2015

I think you mentioned our minimum tax, and we think that the President's proposal needs to be looked at in its entirety.

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Nov 30, 2015

And I just think we are missing the boat. And I hope this has been a wake-up call today for everybody to hear you all talk about the fact that, even if we were not already convinced that we are missing this opportunity to help the people…

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Nov 30, 2015

I do not see how you can say this is good for the United States to have a BEPS project that ends up saying...

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Nov 19, 2015

I look forward to working with my colleague from Pennsylvania on that sound bipartisan policy he is talking about, and I want to talk a little bit about that today. He mentioned Senator Vandenberg, who famously said that partisanship ends…

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Nov 18, 2015

We began this bipartisan investigation with a very simple goal: better informing Congress about the issue of sex trafficking.

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Nov 18, 2015

These are not actions of a party acting in good faith.

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Nov 18, 2015

Well, thank you. And all those would go toward you being able to rescue these kids, all of us being able to rescue our children.

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Nov 18, 2015

We will consider the appropriate course in the next few days.

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