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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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Jan 18, 2021

I will look forward to working with you on coming up with ways to deal with that long-term structural deficit.

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Jan 18, 2021

Disinformation operations are cheap, deniable, and when combined with economic and political subversion can be a devastating to democracies.

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Jan 18, 2021

I think $138 million is what we asked for this year. We got $60 million.

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Jan 18, 2021

The President and the Secretary of State have made clear that securing a ceasefire and supporting a political dialogue to defuse the political crisis in Ethiopia is an urgent priority.

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Jan 18, 2021

I just am worried about these proposals to both increase the corporate tax and to double the rate, as I understand it, on GILTI, on this minimum tax, from 10½ to 21 percent.

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Jan 18, 2021

A Treasury Secretary can be very powerful within an administration, providing a voice for fiscal sanity, and I would urge you to do that.

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Jan 18, 2021

We should not get too comfortable with that, and second, that we have historic levels of deficits now.

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Jan 14, 2021

the attack on the U.S. Capitol was an attack on democracy itself. And the President bears some responsibility for what occurred. If the senate conducts an impeachment trial, among my considerations will be what is best to help heal our…

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Jan 6, 2021

Mr. Vice President, you have fulfilled your duties as President of the Senate tonight with distinction, and we all appreciate it. I thought about changing my mind and not speaking tonight, given the lateness of the hour, and I know all of…

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Dec 20, 2020

First of all, I want to agree with my colleague from Michigan and thank her for her work concerning behavioral health and working with us in a bipartisan group on both behavioral health and addiction because, unfortunately, during this…

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Dec 20, 2020

one other point from Senator Stabenow and myself, and that is that we want to congratulate and thank our colleagues in the House for working with us on this Great Lakes Restoration Initiative and, in particular, the two cochairs in the…

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Dec 20, 2020

I am on the floor tonight to join my colleague Senator Stabenow of Michigan to ask our colleagues to support legislation that has to do with the Great Lakes. It is called the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. We are asking to reauthorize…

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