I ask unanimous consent that the committee-reported substitute amendment be agreed to and that the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The committee-reported…
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.
I know of no further debate on the bill, as amended. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there further debate on the bill? Hearing none, the bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall the bill pass? The bill (S. 2129), as amended…
this is an important day for Otto Warmbier's family, for so many people who care about the repression and the lack of information going into North Korea, and I thank my colleagues for supporting this legislation. I yield the floor…
I want to thank my colleague from Delaware via Columbus, OH, for his comments, and I want to talk for a moment about what we did today in the U.S. Senate. We passed legislation very important to our veterans that has to do with expanding…
I am also rising today to ask unanimous consent from my colleagues to pass other legislation, S. 2129, a bipartisan bill that I have coauthored with my colleague from Ohio, Senator Sherrod Brown. It honors a young man named Otto Warmbier…
for the 15th straight week, while the U.S. Senate has been in session, I come to the floor to talk about what is going on in Ukraine. This is the war that Russia continues to wage against the people of Ukraine. I am going to talk about…
are we in legislative session? The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senate is considering the PACT Act. ____________________
With big profit margins, that enables Putin to continue to fight this war without the kinds of consequences that I would hope we could put in place.
All of us must condemn these hateful acts, I think you have properly said that we have a role in simply speaking up more and more forcefully.
Well, it sounds like we are not going to have enough gas to replace, as you say, this incredible dependency that they unfortunately developed with Russia.
I focus a lot on this issue of energy because that is where most of the money is coming from to fund the war machine.
We got to step up, and that will be a model, as you say, a template for the region.
Any venture, any military operation, across the border into northern Syria... puts the civilian population in the crosshairs.
I ask unanimous consent that Clara Smith, an intern with Senator Boozman's staff, be granted floor privileges until July 29, 2022. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
I think it is difficult for us to get them to help us in terms of isolating him and certainly not developing a normal relationship with him.
I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes and Senator Stabenow for 1 minute prior to the scheduled rollcall votes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Ukraine
last Friday was a grim milestone. It was the 100th day of the war in Ukraine--a war being waged by Russia against an ally in a democratic country, Ukraine: a hundred days of brutal, unrelenting rocket and missile attacks throughout…
I ask unanimous consent that Karen Fletcher, a detail with Senator Boozman's staff, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
today is a very important day in American history, June 6, the anniversary of D-day. One of the most important and consequential battles of World War II occurred on that day. Every year I have served in this body, I have a practice of…





