did like mr portman but unfortunately he demonstrated the things on principled if he hadn't thought through how his principle would apply even to his own child and he stood up and defended it he was being on principle now i believe it is wrong of you progressives and the reason it's taking as long as it's taken for you to get your point of view may because you condemn people who disagree with you as bigots people can have a legitimate difference of opinion on this issue and that doesn't make. doesn't make them an uninformed what is and how do you define bigot if you don't define it as some. who wants to use to prevent other people from exercising the same rights that you have like one i'm sorry the supreme court said in the eight hundred seventy s. that you couldn't marry more than two other one other person now they interfered in the right of people being socially eight hundred ninety s. and we're going to do nine hundred centuries of discord sort after americans had to sit a different car for a while my point to you is it is not the definition of bigotry it is there are legal ques

mr. portman: thank you, sir. the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. moran: madam president, thank you. i have filed an amendment number 233 that i'd like to visit with my colleagues about this evening. i'm pleased that we're debating a budget. budgets have great purse in individual and -- great purposes in individual and business lives and they're important to us as we try to solve the country's fiscal problems. a budget is a document that determines how much money we have to spend and how we're going to spend it. and in determining how we're going to spend money, we establish priorities. and i want to talk about one of my priorities for the investment of our taxpayer dollars. kansans and citizens from across the country pay their taxes, and in many ways they would be pleased by those having to pay taxes if they knew that the money was being well-spent. and one of the areas that i strongly believe that we can prioritize and that money can be well-spent is in support of the national institute for health. we have a tremendous opportunity in this country

mr. portman coming out in support of same-sex marriage.ce roberts' own cousin was there for the oral arguments. she's gay as well. she said she believes her cousin will do the good thing, whatever that means. but nevertheless the president in 2012 bringing it back to his own family which he's done so many times when he supported different issues. >> and i think that's what most americans are doing. i'm friends with an historian named martin at princeton who wrote a book on black mountain school of poetry and i didn't realize that he was struggling to just get benefits for his significant other. he is probably going to get married just so he can make sure that he has health benefits for the person he loves of all of us are touched by some story. so we're seeing america evolve just as before 1920, women didn't have the right to vote. the jim crow laws in the 1950s and '60s. it has gone step by step to change the consciousness of america. and president obama has not necessarily been a leader on this issue. but he is cresting the wave of publi

mr. portman, who once voted for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, now says that the experience transformed his understanding of who should have the right to marry. >> i've come to the conclusion that for me, personally, i think this is something that we should allow people to do, to get married and to have the joy and stability of marriage that i've had for over 26 years. i want all three of my kids to have it including our son who is gay. >> joinedmy my colleague, toure, co-host of the "cycle" and julian epstein, a democratic strategist. toure, notwithstanding what rob portman has said, eric cantor and speaker john boehner both said they don't agree, though they respect his view. do you think they would change their minds if one of their own children would decide to come out and say they were gay publicly? >> i suspect they would. i don't want to engage at hypothetic hypotheticals. look at somebody like dick cheney coming around an gay rights and gay marriage. this is what's happening in america. more and more people are seeing they have gay people in their family, in their fr

mr. portman: i would be happy to yield. mr. sessions: senator portman served as director of office of management and budget. he knows how this situation works. that dotted line isn't just spending, is it, senator portman? it's spending as a percentage of the american economy. so in some sense, that surging upward line of spending is even worse than first glance might appear? mr. portman: that's true. this chart is as a percent of the g.d.p. so, look, we all want the economy to grow, and actually they project it will grow under the congressional budget office. even so, that growth in the economy can't keep up with this great surge in spending. other folks have said on the floor over the last 24 hours, let's go back to the simpson-bowles, three to one ratio, where you have $3 in spending cuts for every $1 in revenue. that is what erskine bowles testified before the super committee, that is what their revenue was, $1 in revenue for every $3 in spending cuts. that's also not what this budget does, this underlying budget because it i

>> they do, but senator portman and mrs. clinton are two examples of people who are examples of what we've always >> they do, but senator portman and mrs. clinton are two examples of people who are examples of what we've always nope at glad, which is when people know us, when they know our stories, when they're part of our lives and hear our stories, they understand our issues and they are on our side. so we applaud senator portman for his statement and for supporting his son. his son has the right to love whoever he chooses, and just like his brothers and his sisters. so we welcome that. and as for mrs. clinton, she's always been a great supporter of our community, and we're not shocked by her eloquent statement today. >> let me push you a little bit here, because some people have personal experiences with gay lesbian, transsexual persons and don't like them. wouldn't you rather have principled -- beyond them, wouldn't you appreciate a principled adherence to ideals and beliefs and concepts that give you purchase on support

mr. lapierre, just dangerous. and rob portman's stunning decision to now support same-sex marriage after his son told him he is gay. join something he david boss circumstance president of citizens united and republican strategist and cnn contributor, margaret hoover a big day forth republican party in this country, in many ways, to start with, the portman sensation. another way of putting it really, here is a republican senator who had repeatedly voted against gay marriage doing a complete u-turn because his son turned out two years ago, went to him and said, dad, i'm gay. margaret, what did you make of that? >> look, i think rob portman acted in a way that was consistent with the love for his son and consistent with a movement happening across the country with republican legislators. piers, many people don't know, more than 205 republican state legislators across the country have voted, elected leaders have voted for the freedom to marry and not lost their seats because of it. 135 members signed on to amicus brief for the supreme

republicans are publicly supporting same-sex marriage, including ohio senator rob portman, of course, many remain opposed. 1558 mrsvid brooks here on "meet the press," let's listen. >> the trend is pretty amazing. we've had 5,000 years of western civilization. has there ever been a society that's given complete equality to gays and lesbians? no. this is a big, historic moment and the movement is overwhelming and gradual and almost irreversible. >> so what kind of struggles to opponents of it on the wrong side of history here? >> yes, absolutely. alex, this is the civil rights movement, if you will middle parts of the 19th century for african-americans and what's wrong with gay and lesbian americans? what's wrong with gay and lesbians able to enter into a relationship so they are able to pass along their material and so forth on to other generations that share that? there's nothing wrong with that and this is certainly not a threat to traditional marriage. so, yes, the republicans out there and also some democrats are on the wrong side of history here. there's no question, it's a tidal wave that will happen sooner

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mr. portman 154, mr. leahy 710, and for mr. inhofe number 139. the presiding officer: there are now two amendments -- two minutes equally divided. prior to a vote. mr. barrasso: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from wyoming. mr. barrasso: i'd like to call up amendment 184. the presiding officer: it is penpending. mr. barrasso: president obama set forth the goal of doubling our exports in five years. three years later we are not on the pace to achieve that gel. one problem is the e.p.a. is blocking exports. e.p.a. is blocking exports on account of the greenhouse gas eations. those exports would produce outside the united states. that is, after they leave our shores. this is a dangerous precedent. it will hurt exports of automobiles, aircraft, and heavy equipment such as tractors. these amendments prohibits federal agencies from blocking exports on account of greenhouse gas emissions. those exports would produce after they leave the united states. i ask for the yeas and nays. mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: is

mr. portman, amendment numbered 152. the presiding officer: there are now two minutes equally divided prior to a vote in relation to amendment706, offered by the senator from maryland, mr. cardin. the senator from maryland. mr. cardin: madam president, thank you very much. if we could have order in the senate. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mr. cardin: thank you, madam president. we have two amendments that are going to be considered. one that i'm offering, one that senator inhofe's amendment. senator inhofe's amendment is a rather extreme amendment. it cuts the funds to the environmental protection agency and basically prohibits them from regulating carbon emissions. i think -- i would hope that most of us would consider that a rather extreme position to take to prevent the environmental protection agency from protecting the environment. my amendment is an amendment that says that -- that the carbon emission standards must be cost-effective and we all agree that they should be cost-effective. it sh