Rob Portman

I was there in 2014 with Senator Cardin as an election monitor.

The attack on the U.S. Capitol was an attack on democracy itself. And the President bears some responsibility for what occurred. If the senate conducts an impeachment trial, among my considerations will be what is best to help heal our…

One other point from Senator Stabenow and myself, and that is that we want to congratulate and thank our colleagues in the House for working with us on this Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and, in particular, the two cochairs in the…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the provisions of S. Res. 797 as further mark of respect for the late Paul Spyros Sarbanes, former Senator for the State of…

I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate the message to accompany S. 1869. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 1869) entitled…

The transition to Biden should begin.

Based on all the information currently available, neither a final lawful vote counts nor the recounts have led to a different outcome in any state.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:24 p.m., stands adjourned until Wednesday, November 18, 2020…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 8:39 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, October 1, 2020, at 12 noon…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:44 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, July 30, 2020, at 10 a.m…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:11 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 21, 2020, at 10 a.m…

I will yield. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, beyond what the Senator is accurately pointing out, they put us in the following procedural position. By refusing to jump over some of these procedural steps along the way--it would not…

Rob Portman... said he didn't think it was appropriate for the president to make that kind of request of the Ukrainians during his phone call.

The president should not have raised the Biden issue on that call, period. It's not appropriate for a president to engage a foreign government in an issue of a political opponent.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:23 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, September 26, 2019, at 10…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, May 9, 2019, at 9:30 a.m. ____________________

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 6:58 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, April 10, 2019, at 9:45 a.m…

The Brexit negotiations can begin in earnest a year from now, so, you know, on March 30, 2019.

Declaring a national emergency to access different funds sets a dangerous new precedent. It opens the door for future presidents to implement just about any policy they want. Each one of us in this body has sworn an oath to support and…

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 12:25 p.m., adjourned until Saturday, January 19, 2019, at 11 a.m.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:10 p.m., adjourned until Thursday, November 29, 2018, at 10…

We cannot rely just on Chinese, Russian and French product. We need to have our own, and I am glad you agree with that.

Big mistake, in my view, big mistake. We now have no ability to have a domestically-owned American source of enriched uranium.

This is a crisis, and it is getting worse, not better, and there are State actors involved as well as individual hackers.

We want to be sure that our legislative initiatives are being implemented rapidly before more people die.