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" When it is fair, American workers can compete and win. I cannot support the TPP in its current form because it doesn't provide that level playing field. "
Rob Portman
Playing
Support
Fair
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" I have acknowledged the problem and have spent my time in Congress focusing on solutions - including developing clean and efficient energy that grows our economy and creates jobs while also lowering pollution levels and protecting the environment. "
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Environment
Energy
Time
" I'm not representing any organization. I represent the people of Ohio, and a lot of people in Ohio feel very strongly about their Second Amendment rights. "
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Rights
Feel
" Kyrie Irving could use a little help. "
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Could
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" The Iron Dome system is a proven way for Israel to defend its citizens from hostile threats and will advance missile defense technology for us and other allies. "
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System
Iron
" Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around. "
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Getting Better
Turn
Need
" I'm on the Armed Services Committee, which gives me the opportunity to get involved on some of these international issues. My focus is, as you know, on the economic issues and budget issues. "
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Opportunity
Know
Me
" Trump and Bernie Sanders are different sides of the same coin. "
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Different
Trump
Sides
" We want more of our products going overseas, but the trick is to have a level playing field. "
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Want
" I was fortunate, I guess, to be part of some good fiscal discipline in the Bush administration. The budget I put forward was a balanced budget. "
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Forward
Good
Some
" I think what people are looking for right now is not the kind of pizzazz and pop that perhaps we thought we got in 2008. Certainly, President Obama offered that. What they want now is someone who can work closely with Congress and get things done. "
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People
Think
Looking
" There is so much uncertainty out there, and the government in Washington doesn't seem to get it. What's needed is a new business environment. "
Rob Portman
New
Business
Environment
" There has never been a campaign where there hasn't been sniping from the outside and second-guessing. I hear the same sometimes from the Democratic side in terms of President Obama's campaign, so that's to be expected. "
Rob Portman
Side
Sometimes
Same
" The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century. "
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Tax
Fallen
Behind
" I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator. "
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Job
Senator
Doing
" I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity. "
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American
Society
Government
" We must make clear that if you come here illegally, you will be sent back home. "
Rob Portman
Will
Back
Here
" We shouldn't be debating whether to deal with the current code by allowing it to be extended or not. We should have a president who shows leadership and comes to Congress and says: 'You know what? We need to reform this whole tax code.' "
Rob Portman
Need
Leadership
You
" I'm a religious liberty supporter - I strongly believe in that. "
Rob Portman
Supporter
Believe
Liberty
" I like to think I am a serious legislator and trying to get things done. That's my goal in life, to get things done. "
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Serious
Life
I Am
" John Kasich is the most popular elected official in Ohio because he got things done. "
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Things
Most
Got
" What I support is a whole different approach with regard to drug use, and that is spending less money on the prosecution and incarceration side and more money on prevention and education, which I know works. "
Rob Portman
Know
Education
Support
" Having deinstitutionalized mental health, we have not created the structure and the institutions to take care of people, to identify when there is a mental health problem, and to get the treatment to people. "
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People
Health
Mental Health
" Out of college, I had two job offers. One was to be a canoe instructor for Outward Bound. And frankly, that would have paid better than the job I took, working on a policy commission in Washington that focused on immigration policy and refugees. But that decision made all the difference. "
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Working
Better
College
" The wealthy are doing just fine in the Obama economy. "
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Fine
Just
Economy
" Let's replace Obamacare with reforms that put you back in charge of your own healthcare. "
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Your
Own
Back
" Senator Brown and I have different philosophies as represented in our different ratings: I am a conservative, and he is a liberal. "
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Conservative
Different
I Am
" I support repeal, but I think we ought to also spend time on the replacement side of that. The Republican approach has never been, 'Let's get rid of this,' but, 'Let's replace it with something that does deal with a very real problem in our healthcare system.' And that is the entry's cost and lack of coverage. "
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Problem
Time
Think
" This past year has been very turbulent for the Middle East, and my conversation with Prime Minister Netanyahu strengthened my belief that we need to remain vigilant in our support of our critical ally. "
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Past
Support
Belief
" Trump is going to be the change agent. Hillary Clinton is going to be the status quo. Bernie Sanders is not going to be in the mix. "
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Mix
Status Quo
Status