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" When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade. "
Rob Portman
Jury
Degree
You
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" 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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" What we need is fundamental tax reform. "
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" 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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" We should not throw in the towel. Instead, we should be saying to young people, 'There is a better way for you to have a healthy and productive life, and that's not to get into drug use and drug abuse.' "
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" My concern about Barack Obama is he ran a campaign in 2008 where he said we're going to bring people together and solve big problems. And he specifically talked about the need to reach across the aisle and deal with issues like the economy, which was obviously the top issue in 2008. It has not happened. "
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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
" I have come to believe that if two people are prepared to make a lifetime commitment to love and care for each other in good times and in bad, the government shouldn't deny them the opportunity to get married. "
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" The Obama administration has refused to back down on the insurance mandate that needlessly pits health care against the rights of the religious... This administration simply doesn't get it. "
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Get
Health
" If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. "
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Even
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" I have decided to endorse Governor John Kasich for president because he is a leader who has a proven record of delivering results. John turned Ohio around at a tough time, and I believe he can do the same for our country. "
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Tough
" The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016. "
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Going
Disability
" When you tax capital gains income, you don't help the economy, you hurt the economy, which is why President Kennedy, President Reagan, President Clinton and President Bush all believed we should have a lower rate for capital gains. "
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" We need a broader party. If we're not doing better with millennials and women and Hispanics, African Americans, Asian Americans and others, we will have a tough time being a majority party at the national level. "
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Women
Party
" 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. "
Rob Portman
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Know
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" Do you agree with me that we can't afford four more years of Barack Obama? "
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Four
Agree
You
" 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. "
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Support
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" At the end of the day, all the best negotiating techniques can't overcome the most substantive policy differences. "
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" People vote for the president, not the vice president. I think sometimes people that are in the veepstakes talk too much about this and certainly the media does. I don't think that it's that important. "
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Think
People
" Kyrie Irving could use a little help. "
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Little
Could
Help
" I'm very happy where I am: I'm a senator from Ohio. "
Rob Portman
Senator
Happy
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" We have a paralysis in Washington that's not serving our country. We have to address these issues. "
Rob Portman
Country
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" The U.S. has fallen behind with tax policies that haven't been updated in a half-century. "
Rob Portman
Tax
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" I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues. "
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" Decisions about your health should be between you and your doctor, not a bureaucrat and an insurance company. Let's expand choice rather than limiting it. Let's create jobs instead of destroying them. And let's bring down the costs instead of driving them up. "
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Doctor
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" 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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" You could have another downgrade. You could certainly have a stock market reaction that would be negative. And, I think nobody who looks at it objectively would want to happen. "
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" No one should discriminate. "
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" 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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" We should not approve an agreement that fails to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons and does nothing to address Iranian behavior that threatens our allies and our interests. "
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Agreement
Allies
" Things are not getting better. They are getting worse. We need to elect Mitt Romney to turn things around. "
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Turn
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