Rob Portman

I think we need to ensure that we have better management going forward, and I think we need to look carefully at what happened and why.

I think this is a time when we should all be doubling down on how to make government work more efficiently.

I do not see how you can say this is good for the United States to have a BEPS project that ends up saying...

I think that is coming out here today.

I think you mentioned our minimum tax, and we think that the President's proposal needs to be looked at in its entirety.

I mean, we could do a number of things to get wages up. But every economic study I have seen says the same thing, which is, if you do in fact go with a pro-growth tax reform on the business side, you are going to see the benefit go to the…

I do not see how you can say that is good. I mean, that should make you want to look at our tax code...

And I just think we are missing the boat. And I hope this has been a wake-up call today for everybody to hear you all talk about the fact that, even if we were not already convinced that we are missing this opportunity to help the people…

But that does not mean that we should sit back and simply not react, because I do think you are going to see an erosion...

I think Senator Casey asked a really good question about jobs and wages, and how do we get past the point in this country where we see not just flat but actually declining wages, higher expenses, the middle-class squeeze.

This is a step the Senate has not taken in 20 years.

We will not be deterred.

We will consider the appropriate course in the next few days.

Well, thank you. And all those would go toward you being able to rescue these kids, all of us being able to rescue our children.

It is not about questions of privilege.

These are not actions of a party acting in good faith.

Thank you, Senator Heitkamp, and thank you for your leadership on this.

For God's sake, she is only 16.

One of the obvious concerns I see here is that when you edit an ad and change its wording, of course, you are not changing the underlying transaction.

As Co-Chair of the Senate Caucus to End Human Trafficking and, maybe more importantly, as someone who represents a State that has experienced some abhorrent sex-trafficking networks, and, maybe most importantly, as a father, this is an…

The Department of Justice (DOJ) has reported that more than half of sex-trafficking victims are minors, and the problem appears to be getting worse.

It is a problem that I believe Congress should pay more attention to.

We began this bipartisan investigation with a very simple goal: better informing Congress about the issue of sex trafficking.

It makes it harder for you to find these kids.

For victims, the toll of sex trafficking is measured in stolen childhoods and long-lasting trauma. For traffickers, it is measured in dollars, often a lot of dollars.