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Sadly, we know child deaths due to abuse are far too common. The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System estimated that 1,840 children died from abuse and neglect in 2019, and we know those numbers probably don’t even tell the full story Right now, the lack of a clear definition for “child maltreatment fatality” […]

China and our competitors spend billions propping up state-owned enterprises and investing in research and development, monetizing our ideas, and using them to compete against American businesses, while paying their workers less and giving them fewer rights. I want the technologies that will drive the next generation of manufacturing – from semiconductors to hydrogen buses […]

EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial by U.S. Senator Rob Portman originally appeared in The Sandusky Register. It can be viewed here. Spring is a time of new beginnings, so it is a fitting time to hold up those who have started new lives of meaning and purpose after being convicted of a crime and serving their […]

For far too long, our trade policy has allowed our steelworkers and other Ohio industries to drown under unfair foreign competition. Too often, we see trade remedy orders put in place on imports from one country, only to see the U.S. market flooded with dumped or subsidized imports of that same product from a different […]

It’s simple: if you work extra hours, you should earn extra pay.  Four and a half years ago in Columbus, I stood with then-Vice President Biden and the Secretary of Labor, and we announced that the administration was going to finally raise the salary threshold to earn overtime pay, making millions more workers eligible.

On April 9, U.S. Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, wrote an op-ed in RealClearPolitics highlighting the crisis at our southern border and calling for the Biden administration to implement critical policy changes to stop the flow of unlawful border crossings. Portman released a statement April 8 […]

EL PASO, Texas – U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, toured an area Friday near the Monument Three border wall section, the U.S. Border Patrol Paso del Norte processing station. He also received an operational brief from Gloria Chavez, Chief Patrol Agent, USBP El Paso […]

WASHINGTON, DC – On Friday, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Roy Blunt (R-MO), Ranking Member of the Senate Rules and Administration Committee, Marco Rubio (R-FL), Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on […]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after Saturday morning’s vote opposing the Democrats’ $1.9 trillion spending bill: “Good economic news combined with the good-faith bipartisan efforts that nine of my Republican colleagues and I undertook to craft a responsible alternative to this partisan bill leave me deeply disappointed about the […]