Rob Portman

We are still seeing under your budget a doubling of health care costs--and by the way, driven by a lot of things, but one is Obamacare

The number-one cause of death in Ohio today is heroin overdoses. It has now surpassed traffic accidents.

When are we going to get serious about this? How do we get serious about it?

Our satisfaction rate is 85 percent, so people like this program.

Medicare Advantage is working. In Ohio, 38 percent of seniors are on it.

We have to come up with a common-sense way to address hospital inpatient and observation stays.

I share his concern over it. And look, I spent time with rural hospitals back home.

The main driver of that cost reduction in Medicare is Medicare Part D.

I think we do have to figure out how to have the IRS run more efficiently.

I would think, with your manpower being stretched and your resources being stretched, that you would not want to make a decision like that that would cost the agency so much and be harmful to taxpayers.

It is a tough agency to love because it is taking away your hard-earned dollars.

I have heard about four or five of them while I have been here.

We are heading toward record high tax revenues.

If we do not do that, Mr. Chairman, I am afraid we will have let down the people who voted us to represent them.

You know, we have got to figure out how to work together as Republicans and Democrats to avoid this coming catastrophe.

I am one who believes there is a lot of waste at the Pentagon and there is room to do more there, even.

If we are not selling to the 95 percent of the world outside of our borders, we are letting our people down.

The Senator from New Hampshire said it well. This is a no-brainer. It is three relatively small provisions, one of which is very timely with regard to water heaters, about which we are very concerned. I ask that we move on this amendment…

This is with regard to the energy legislation that passed the House and has four commonsense, simple provisions we hoped to be able to pass by unanimous consent tonight, and hopefully I will be able to convince my colleagues it is…

While I am proud of the hard-working Ohioans in Cincinnati and elsewhere who are making these rations, and the folks in Heath who produce these helmets, they know as well as I do that this equipment doesn't constitute deterrence…

I agree this is a responsible use of our oversight responsibilities to revisit that decision by Gramm-Leach-Bliley periodically.

I appreciate your holding the hearing, which gives us an opportunity to explore the role that banks play in the commodities markets.

A temporary suspension until we get our act together, I think, makes sense.

Some experts I have talked to on this use the word 'bureaucracy,' that there was a bureaucratic issue here in responding, and more money will not solve that problem. Maybe more accountability will.

CDC was on the ground with a relatively small number of people relatively early, but it also got out of control.