All statements involving Rob Portman
"We rank below Ethiopia, I'm told, in terms of our exports per capita, well below any of the other developed countries we trade with, and well below China and (South) Korea."
U.S. debt is "now equal to 100 percent of the GDP."
"Thirty-four of the last 44 (debt ceiling increases) have been for less than a year. So, this notion that short-term is somehow the exception, it's actually the rule."
A year since the "Recovery Summer," there has been been "a fall, winter and spring of no recovery."
"The Democrat-led Senate has failed to pass a budget for 750 days ... Senate Democrats have neglected one of their most basic responsibilities."
"The (health reform) legislation which Washington passed last year has made it more difficult to hire" because it’s increased costs for employers.
Drilling for oil on the Outer Continental Shelf and in parts of Alaska will "immediately reduce our dangerous dependence on foreign oil."
Says the United States does not "trade as much as other developed nations."
"Under Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher, Ohio is 44th in the country in terms of getting money actually into worker retraining."
Says he's so bipartisan that "12 of my bills were signed into law by Democratic President Bill Clinton."
Since the stimulus package was passed, "Ohio’s lost over 100,000 more jobs."
On Lee Fisher’s watch, "almost nine out of 10" jobs that Ohio lost were lost to other states, "not to other countries."
"Under Lee Fisher Ohio has lost nearly 400,000 jobs."
Says a "Pro-Stimulus economist admits it is not working … "
"On (Rob Portman's) watch as Bush's trade czar, our deficit with China exploded" and "as Bush's budget chief, Portman oversaw a spending spree that doubled the deficit."
"More than half of our unemployed Ohioans have been out of work for six months or more."
Rob Portman is "the one who actually sucked the jobs out of the (Mahoning) Valley and sent them to China."
Rob Portman has taken more than $125,000 from "Big Oil."
A bill to cap carbon emissions "could cost Ohio 100,000 jobs."
Since the Democrats’ stimulus went into effect last year, Ohio has lost about 150,000 Jobs.
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