Rob Portman

FAST-41 is a valuable tool.

I believe that should be repealed.

Congress should appropriate funding for the Council at the President's request of $10 million.

Continuing this bipartisan support for FAST-41, President Trump's budget sought $10 million for the program.

The passage of FAST-41 was a bipartisan achievement, led by Senators Portman and McCaskill.

Chairman Portman, your work and leadership along with Senator McCaskill on the Federal Permitting Improvement Act demonstrated a steadfast commitment to cutting red tape in order to get much needed infrastructure projects moving forward.

I hope two years from now I will be back here with you, Senator Portman, to have a hearing talking about the successes we have had with FAST-41.

This law says the Permitting Council at that moment steps in and says, 'No, you are not going to take your football and go home.'

The goal of this hearing is to determine how we can stretch that Federal dollar to get the most bang for the buck.

We have to do better.

Independent agencies are expected to fully comply with this law.

Agencies on the Council need to be fully engaged for this process to work.

Leaving in place an acting executive who is not a political appointee despite her skill undercuts the board's ability.

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 7:47 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, August 2, 2017, at 10 a.m…

I ask the Chair to lay before the Senate the message to accompany S. 114. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 114) entitled ``An…

I appreciate the indulgence of my colleagues from Iowa and Rhode Island. (The remarks of Mr. Portman pertaining to the introduction of S. 1693 are printed in today's Record under ``Statements on Introduced Bills and Joint Resolutions.'')

Our bill does not amend, and thus preserves, the Communications Decency Act's Good Samaritan provision.

I hope we will redouble our efforts to work on that, because the alternative is frightening.

The level of depravity that exists within that regime.

Director Coates has now outlined in his worldwide threat assessment that just came out a couple of months ago that North Korea's record of sharing dangerous nuclear and missile technology with state sponsors of terrorism, including Iran…

The removal from the list in 2008 was closely linked to negotiating limitations on the program and changes in international behavior by the regime, and it never happened.

We have big challenges with North Korea, and over the period of the last couple of decades, a few different administrations, we have tried different things which have not worked.

We do not focus enough on 'why?' And a lot of it has to do with the very real problems in our current economy.

We need to broaden the base, we need to lower the rate, we need a simpler system, we need a fair system.

This has been terrific, and I enjoyed hearing the testimony from all four of you.