Rob Portman

Amendments to the original House-passed bill, led by GOP negotiators Sens. Susan Collins, Thom Tillis and Rob Portman, make sure that nonprofit religious organizations are not required to help perform a same-sex marriage.

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) is hoping for a vote by the end of the year on the bill, which is supported by all Democrats but only a handful of Republicans in the Senate, including Portman.

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Susan Collins (R-ME), Joe Manchin (D-WV) and others on Wednesday introduced two bipartisan proposals which include legislation to reform and modernize the 1887 law that governs the process of counting Electoral College votes. The law came under fresh scrutiny following attempts to invalidate the presidential election results on Jan. 6, 2021.

Ohio's junior senator said "based on her responses to my questions, her record, and her answers at her confirmation hearing, I cannot support her nomination."

Ohio's Sen. Rob Portman returned Tuesday night from a trip to Ukraine with a bipartisan congressional delegation. Portman, along with Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Roger Wicker (R-MS) met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the trip.

Last week, The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com posted an extraordinary editorial – one that begged Sen. Rob Portman to jump into Ohio's Senate race and save Ohio Republicans from an embarrassing and potentially devastating primary election in May, lest "the ugliness that is the Republican primary for your seat ... continue its cavalcade of intemperate, cruel, ill-judged, narrow-minded and explosive rhetoric designed to divide not unite."

With the exception of Rob Portman and Mitch McConnell, all the Republican members of Congress who have a direct interest in solving the Brent Spence Bridge problem voted against Biden's infrastructure bill.

Democratic leaders in Congress are tying that proposal to a larger $3.5-trillion plan that doesn’t have bipartisan support. That package includes investments that have long been on Democrats’ wish lists, such as expanding Medicare, something Portman says he doesn't support.

A $1 trillion infrastructure bill was co-authored by Senator Rob Portman and passed by the Senate in August.

Sen. Rob Portman says the bill will provide $60 billion, including $45 billion in new grant funding, for state and local governments to fund projects like the Brent Spence Bridge.