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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 19, 2013

Do you think it is a problem of over classification, and if so, do you think ODNI and others are doing the right things to try to de-classify information so it is more useful?

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Nov 19, 2013

This is not our last hearing, so we will continue to work on this.

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Nov 19, 2013

We have a legislation that Senator Tester and I introduced that actually passed called the SCORE Act.

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Nov 19, 2013

You mentioned, as I recall, that you think that the legislative branch provides too much deference to the executive branch on classification.

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Nov 14, 2013

I think it is great that we have the opportunity to come to the floor today to talk about what our constituents are telling us. We do not do that enough. Last night I had a tele-townhall meeting. We had about 25,000 Ohioans. At every one…

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Nov 6, 2013

I rise today to thank my colleagues for their support earlier today of an amendment that I offered strengthening the protections for religious liberty in the ENDA legislation, the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. This amendment was…

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Nov 5, 2013

To the American people, as you did not with regard to the lack of transparency in setting up the site.

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Nov 5, 2013

A guy calls in and says, 'I tried to get on for 2 weeks, I finally get on, and I find out my premium is double.'

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Nov 5, 2013

We are told 12 million people nationally are going to lose the coverage they have.

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Nov 5, 2013

Are you going to provide the results of that testing?

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Nov 5, 2013

the Ohio insurance companies are canceling plans because the legislation that you are implementing does not permit these plans because they do not meet your mandates.

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Nov 5, 2013

Is it true that, after all this sound and fury and all this bureaucracy and 19 new taxes and over $1 trillion of new spending and so on, that still 30 million Americans 10 years from now, after full implementation of this, will not have…

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