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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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May 16, 2016

We do not want to create disincentives for people to save for their retirement at a time when we need more and more people to be saving.

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May 16, 2016

We have a tax code that is not competitive, and we need to do a number of things to change it, and quickly; otherwise, we will continue to lose jobs and investment.

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May 10, 2016

If we have that, we will be okay. But that means that, on the front lines, we have to continue to not just enforce current law, but enforce this new law, what we gave you in the new tools.

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May 10, 2016

We need to see some of those actions. We need to see, as you say, that message being sent by actual successes.

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May 10, 2016

We have been winning cases. Foreign steel imports have now taken a record 29 percent of the U.S. market share.

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May 10, 2016

Yes, again, we are facing a real crisis in Ohio right now on steel.

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Apr 25, 2016

If we do nothing, we are going to continue to see that loss of workers.

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Apr 25, 2016

Every single day, these companies are competing with one hand tied behind their back.

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Apr 25, 2016

That glimmer of hope may well be overtaken by the politics of the moment.

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Apr 25, 2016

We just need a little political will to do so.

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Apr 20, 2016

The Postal Service issues that we talked about earlier, some of the challenges they face require that.

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Apr 20, 2016

I am just honored to be here today to introduce a very good friend of mine who happens also to be very talented.

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Apr 19, 2016

I think you are absolutely right, and the court would have been able to review the actual requirements in the RAA.

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Apr 14, 2016

The one thing that troubles me--and I went to Kroger. They asked me to come for their announcement that Kroger was going to go to over-the-counter.

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Apr 14, 2016

Actually, I know that it is still considered more expensive. Although, when it is once a month as an injection--if it works--it could arguably be less expensive.

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Apr 14, 2016

In a lot of bad news, that is the relatively better news.

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Apr 14, 2016

That might be a slice of better news, and the ability to really be able to----

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Apr 14, 2016

That data is needed. I have heard this as well. That fetal alcohol syndrome has had more----

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Apr 14, 2016

Try to keep the child in the home, ultimately?

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Apr 14, 2016

But, it is time for us to do this research, immediately, to be able to save these kids.

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