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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.
I come to the Senate floor today to stand in solidarity with the people of Ukraine as they suffer through the brutal and cowardly Russian assault. I have spoken on the floor each of the last 6 weeks about the horrific events we have all…
Yes. Let us know how we can be more helpful, and part of the problem, you said, is it is converted to assets.
Huge gaps, and understanding we needed to get money out the door quickly there is no reason not to have that kind of coding and to understand where the money is going and then to follow the money to see whether it is working.
Thank you for doing everything you can to get that taxpayer money back. Eight hundred thirty million bucks is a lot of money. On the other hand, it pales in comparison to the $163 billion, does it not?
we have spent more than $5 trillion of taxpayer money to address the COVID-19 crisis.
I come to the floor again today to stand with the people of Ukraine. What Russia is doing to Ukraine and its citizens is an atrocity. Ukraine is an American ally and an independent and democratic country of 41 million people who simply…
first I want to say that I appreciate my colleagues being on the floor tonight and their really moving statements about the crisis in Ukraine and the atrocities that are being committed there. And I think what you did tonight is you added…
Having a fulsome record of government activity is also important to the future.
Transparency in government is obviously a pillar of our democracy and something we should all ensure continues into the digital age.
It is good that we are having this hearing today on how to look at the Presidential Records Act (PRA) and the Federal Records Act (FRA).
In order to have that transparency and accountability we need a record of what the government is doing, day in and day out.
I rise in support of the Postal Service bill before us. It is important reform. People know this needs to be done. The vote in the House of Representatives was 342 to 92. It has to be done because the Postal Service's business model just…
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