Rob Portman

You could have no better advocate than Joe Lieberman, and he does have enormous respect on both sides of the aisle.

I think the Ambassador to Israel will have to be someone who is a spokesperson for the U.S. point of view on this.

I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate the message from the House to accompany S. 1635. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S…

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. 640, as a further mark of respect to the late John Glenn, former Senator from the State of Ohio…

For the information of all Senators, when the Senate adjourns on Tuesday, January 3, 2017, it will next convene at 12 noon on January 3 pursuant to the Constitution. ____________________

I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate the message to accompany S. 2971. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 2971) entitled…

I ask that the Chair lay before the Senate the message to accompany S. 2854. The Presiding Officer laid before the Senate the following message from the House of Representatives: Resolved, That the bill from the Senate (S. 2854) entitled…

I would like to thank Senators Scott and Casey for their work on the antidiscrimination legislation, particularly as it relates to anti-Semitism. I support them in that effort and look forward to getting something done in Congress to help…

I think that is important for this Committee to hear, because, again, I do not know if it is 1.5 percent or 2 percent that you are actually able to stop, but it is a very small number.

I appreciate you having the hearing today, because it is a critical time.

I thank him for hearing me out tonight. And to my colleagues, I hope this is legislation we can move forward on as soon as we get into another session, I guess the lameduck session. I hope to go to work with my colleague from Nevada on…

Again, this is an issue that has brought us all together in the past. Let's continue to work together on this on a bipartisan basis to begin to turn the tide on this epidemic before it is too late, before we lose more of our young people…

That second-class citizen you were talking about--that is, unfortunately, happening within the exchanges.

I think, conceptually, it makes a lot of sense.

I joined some of my colleagues to introduce what is called 'The State Flexibility to Provide Affordable Health Options Act.'

Eighty-six percent of Obamacare premiums were subsidized by tax dollars.

There is lots of debate about what we do, but just a lack of choice and the lack of competition, as it relates to costs--but it also relates to quality of care.

So, here we had a period where you would have expected some stabilization. Instead, you have just the opposite.

It has not stabilized. And, what is interesting about your testimony is, it has gotten worse.

I could not agree more with Senator Carper and others who spoke who said we need to do this on a bipartisan basis.

Our health care system was not perfect before the Affordable Care Act, but... many of the pledges and promises that were made just have not been kept.

That was not done with Obamacare, obviously, as Senator McCain--who was here at the time--talked about it.

The American people are shocked to learn that independent agencies who play a bigger and bigger role in all of our lives do not have to go through a basic cost benefit analysis.

I think we have to restore American leadership.

Wouldn't it be ironic if our own State Department is not able to do that to fight terrorism?