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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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Apr 18, 2018

I hope you will take another look at that and consider a 3-day limit, again, for acute pain.

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Apr 18, 2018

tonight I want to talk about the passing of an extraordinary woman--a woman who captured the hearts of Americans across every spectrum. Barbara Bush was one of the most popular people in America--and for good reason. One of only two women…

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Apr 18, 2018

The prior authorization process requires additional approval from an insurer or its pharmacy benefit manager before dispensing.

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Apr 18, 2018

It is amazing to me that we are allowing our United States Post Office to be able to continue not to provide law enforcement the data they need to go and find that needle in the haystack.

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Apr 18, 2018

Sixty percent of the people who died in Ohio of overdoses, in the most recent data we have, died of fentanyl overdoses--carfentanil, fentanyl, other synthetic opioids.

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Apr 18, 2018

We are allowing people to have access to this fentanyl in our communities, the poison is coming in.

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Apr 18, 2018

I just think it is one of those issues that we should be able, on a nonpartisan basis, to address and address quickly.

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Apr 18, 2018

We set a 3-day limit. We do that because of the science and because of what CDC has told us.

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Apr 17, 2018

I just had a chance to hear my colleague from Nevada talk a little bit about the importance of the tax cuts and tax reform that this Chamber passed at the end of the year and that is now in effect. All I can say to my constituents is, this…

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Apr 17, 2018

It is not only costly but, qualitatively, it is, in some respects, the most important thing the post office does.

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Apr 17, 2018

This is not an easy job. There are lots of challenges.

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Apr 16, 2018

I would just suggest we have a bipartisan proposal to do that, and we ought to move forward with it.

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