rob portman is a wonderful example. was absolutely opposed to marriage equality and finds out that his son is gay, and right before the supreme court heard these cases, came out and this is the guy, rob portman, republicans are often mentioned as a vice presidential or president or candidate. people coming out and telling their stories, whether it's the four plaintiffs in this case the coming known to american, rob portman son of chuck cooper's daughter, that's really where credit totally begins. >> host: that's exactly something, some might say the organizations have been working on for a very long time and that really is the foundation on which both the prop eight litigation and the windsor litigation, and all of the marriage rights litigation sits. so let me ask you. i'm curious what others have written about and you read some of the commentary, is there anything you would change about the book if you were to rewrite it? >> guest: know. i set out to write the story. i hope there will be many, many other books. i thin

when rob was young, his dad, bill portman, borrowed money to start portman equipment company where rob and his brother and sister all worked growing up. his father and then his brother built the family business from a dealership with five employees with rob's mom as the bookkeeper to one that employed more than 300 people. that's a nice story, i really like that. rob became a lawyer representing small businesses n. 1993, rob was a partner in a since that thety law firm when he was elected to congress where he represented the second district in southern ohio. he served in 12 years, and in all seven elections, he never received less than 70% of the vote. during his time in congress, he was actively involved thiscrafting the historic welfare reform efforts and was an advocate of the balanced budget bill that passed in 1997. he gained the respect of both republican and democratic colleagues through his bipartisan legislative initiatives including measures he authored to reform irs and add over 50 new taxpayer rights, curb unfunded mandates, reduce taxes and expand drug prevention and land

senator rob portman budget, finance, homeland security and energy committees.e you today. >> thanks for having me on. >> the great state of ohio. >> absolutely. we had the mayor on. my friend that i went to school with, it's his son. we are getting old, senator. you have that hair and everything, and it's very distinguished. we were talking to bill ackman about valeant. one of the reasons they are able to make a rich bid is because of the tax rate. pfizer wanted to move and take a billion dollars of tax revenue to the uk because of the tax rate. here we sit on both sides of the aisle while we are obviously losing competitiveness. it would help job creation and everything else. is that what we're talking about? corporate tax reform with you? >> absolutely. rome is burning. it's urgent. a lot of stuff you're talking about is tax driven. pfizer companies, smaller than it is. changes the the domicile to island or wherever. it's about losing out on acquisitions. you were talking about american companies competing for acquisitions. a company in europe or asia can ste

. >>> got to pay the bills so now we're back with senator rob portman of ohio.nator, as were you saying, what's the message to the administration on the way the release and swap was handled? >> well, first of all, my message to the administration is that they out to send a message large and clear that americans do not negotiate with terrorists. this is an exception, i hope, because the problem with making this the rule is that it will put americans' lives in danger. american service men and women who are out there putting their lives on the line for us but also other americans in the foreign service, americans who might be traveling to dangerous parts of the world so i think we need to re-establish this principle and do it quickly. we need to be clear about what's going on. i listened to susan rice on another network, not yours, but another one and when pressed by someone, a reporter about why they released these individuals, she kind of said we want to shut down guantanamo anyway, and if this is how think going to shut down guantanamo, to release folks without

rob portman is the united states senator from ohio. he was elected in 2010 running a campaign that focused on conservative ideas to create jobs and get the deficit under control. he was born and raised in cincinnati where he lives today with his wife and their three children. he grew up in a small business family where he learned early on the value of hard work about leadership and fiscal responsibility. when he was young, his dad borrowed money to start portman equipment company where he and his brother and sister worked while growing up. his father and his brother built a family business from a small truck dealership with five employees. he developed his own private practice representing small practices. in 1993, he was a partner in a cincinnati law firm when he was elected to congress and where he represented the papers 722nd district in southern ohio. he served 12 years and off seven elections he never received less than 70% of the vote. during tha the time in congresse is involved in the historic welfare efforts and he was an advo

it is great to be here with my friend and colleague rob portman.s he indicated, we have worked together on these budget issues. they are tough and challenging, and i am hopeful that at some point down the line we are able to resolve them in a more comprehensive fashion. we have had some piecemeal progress, but really what we need is more comprehensive progress on these issues. before i talk about the budget issues, i also serve as cochair of the bipartisan congressional soccer caucus, norm want to congratulate team you -- and i want to congratulate team usa on a terrific victory in the world cup yesterday, and i hope that is a sign of things to come. they are in a tough bracket. also, bob indicated that my father had served in the u.s. foreign service geared earlier in my career, i was on the senate foreign relations committee. i do want to say a word about iraq, because when we look at ,he situation there obviously it is a time of great chaos and uncertainty. , over thee learned last week, that when it comes to ineign policy pundits washington, th

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representative chris van hollen and rob portman outlining each of their parties budget priorities. exit the idea behind

it is great to be here with my friend and colleague rob portman.s he indicated, we have worked together on these budget issues. they are tough and challenging, and i am hopeful that at some point down the line we are able to resolve them in a more comprehensive fashion. we have had some piecemeal progress, but really what we need is more comprehensive progress on these issues. before i talk about the budget issues, i also serve as cochair of the bipartisan congressional soccer caucus, norm want to congratulate team usa on a terrific victory in the world cup yesterday, and i hope that is a sign of things to come. they are in a tough bracket. also, bob indicated that my father had served in the u.s. foreign service. earlier in my career, i was on the senate foreign relations committee. i do want to say a word about iraq, because when we look at the situation there, obviously it is a time of great chaos and uncertainty. and we have learned, over the last week, that when it comes to foreign policy pundits in washington, there seems to be no accountabil

representative chris van hollen and rob portman outlining each of their parties budget priorities. exit the idea behind 250/250 is instead of trying to tell st. louis by error, we would miss vitally important things. we decided what if we just give snapshots of history that would give people a glimpse of all of the diverse things that have dopened here and they can the rest. 50 people, 50 places, 50 moments, 50 objects and would try to get the most diverse selection that we could. we are in the 50 objects section of 250/250. the object is right in front of you. brewing is such a big part of st. louis history. the most famous became anheuser-busch, the largest in the world. anheuser-busch talking about millions of barrels produced each year, they're producing so much beer that this is from an era where things were little bits and larry and it's fun to show people this object and gauge their response. in the days for they had cancer bottle caps emma they put corks in the top of bottles and somebody had to sit on this thing and do it right hand. it has the pedals on the bottom where t

rob portman as the united states senator from ohio. he was elected in 2010 running the campaign that focused on the conservative ideas to create jobs and get the deficit under control he was born and raised in cincinnati where he lives today with his wife and his three children. they started a company where rob and his brother and sister worked while growing up. they built the business from the small dealership with five employees with his mom as the bookkeeper to the one that employed more than 300 people. he became a lawyer had developed his own private practice representing small businesses. in 1993 rob was a partner in a cincinnati law firm when he was elected to congress when he thee represented the diapers seven county to strict in southern ohio. he served for 12 years and off of seven elections he never received less than 70% of the vote. during his time in congress committee was actively involved in crafting the historic of their reform efforts. and he was an advocate of the balanced budget bill that passed in 1997. he gained t

governor, i'm looking at this, chris christie, mike huckabee, susan martinez of new mexico, rand paul, rob portman did you guys have food

let's bring in senator rob portman. thanks for being here. you're going to be at the briefing.t's the number one question you want answered? >> my tough question is about the five detainees, what kind of arrangement have we made with the qatari government? there's no explanation of that to the congress and importantly to the american people i'm think that's the top question. second is, i want to ask the intel folks who are there, what's the likelihood these five are going to get back in the fight? i think it's pretty high, but i want to hear from them there the administration says that they, a, didn't think like they had to seek approval of congress or loop congress in and, b, that bowe bergdahl, his life was on the line, and because their law didn't have any -- exemption for a circumstance like that, they felt they could act. doesn't the fact that his life might have been on the line play some role in how offended you are about this, by congress not being looped? >> we'll see. the information we have back in december there was a video showing him in the administration thought

senate rob portman, skeet shooting with congressman paul ryan.h mitt and ann romney. after romney delivered a campaign-style speech at the summit, he zinged hillary clinton, for instance, the buzz was whether he'd maybe make a third go at the white house. the two-time presidential candidate tried to put some of those rumors to rest on "meet the press" yesterday. >> will you be a candidate in 2016 if you were drafted if the conditions were right? would you consider another run? >> david, i'm not running for president. i said that so many times. as you know, we just had this conference here in park city, utah. i brought a number of the 2016 contenders here to meet with my fund-raisers. had i been running, i wouldn't be doing that. >> well, that's sad. romney went on to say he wants to find the best candidate for 2016 and help shape the future of his party. but if it's not going to be romney is there anyone who can take on the hillary clinton juggernaut? joining us to discuss, democratic strategist bob shrum and robert schrader. thank you both for b

right now, there are great republicans like susan collins and rob portman who are leading. but too many are following. it's not just about gay voters. it's about all sorts of voters. they are parts of families who are getting married and want full equality for the people they love. >> aisha, i mentioned senator collins. is the latest republican in congress to announce she supports same-sex marriage -- let's talk about the latest polls showing 40% of republicans supporting marriage equality and nearly 60% of republicans between 18 and 29 support it. so is the republican party's acceptance of same-sex marriage just inevitable as we heard by steve and will 2016 presidential candidates have evolve or lose? >> i think that all candidates are going to have to evolve to reflect the interest and the values that steve said of the american population. the republican party is teetering on this brink of not being relevant. they're trying to figure out how to pander to their very, very right wing base and figure out how to move forward. what we all know is that the country is moving in

governor, i'm looking at this, chris christie, mike huckabee, susan martinez of new mexico, rand paul, rob portman. i mean did you guys have food tasters there or what? >> well, it's a good group of people that are coming to talk about where the country is and where america's going to be throughout this century. people of the country i think deserve to understand how we're going to lead the world and hear different viewpoints including some democrats. former governor brian schweitzer, a liberal democrat, is coming to offer his views as well. >> he's among those mentioned as a possible candidate for president himself, regardless of how hillary clinton is doing in the polls. back to this va mess, governor, now the fbi involved, how bad do you think this is going to get? >> well, i think it's pretty bad. because you recognize that someone had to have directed people to falsify medical records. so it's not just the people who actually did the fudging. there's been some direction to do that because it's such a widespread problem. and i think the people who have served our country deserve better than th

republican senator rob portman, member of the budget committee, congressman chris van holland, budget committee outline their, federal budget priorities today. starting atyou that 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. earlier this year, f.c.c. wheeler unveiled a new proposal aim at increasing wi-fi access at the nation's and schools. he spoke about it at an event ofted by the institute museum and library sciencees. this is two and a half hours. it is my honor to welcome you all to the library this morning my guests for this important hearing on the growing neil for broad band access in america's libraries. so libraries have been talking for years about bridging the digital divide, and i think that phrase has been around as long as i've been working in libraries, which is about 20 years thousand if not longer. i have to admit something, that seven or eight years ago i started getting tired of this divide.the digital my feeling was that the issue was increasingly less about bridging the digital divide and who are about bridging the divide.skills it was less about providing access and more about

congressmanocratic chris van hollen and ohio republican senator rob portman outline their budget priorities. >> former iraq administrator paul bremer wrote in the wall street journal recently about the possibility of sending more u.s. troops to iraq. he will join us on the next washington journal. we will talk to congresswoman loretta sanchez about u.s. options in iraq. she serves on the house homeland security committee. steven levy of wired magazine on his piece about recent changes at the healthcare.gov website. you can join the conversation on facebook, twitter and by phone. >> the thesis of the book is that there is a whole group of people in america that is being ignored, left behind, not included in the discussion. argue thely, i would republican party. blue-collar conservatives, the folks out there who are working people, most of them don't have college degrees, folks that really still understand the value and importance of work and responsibility. they understand the importance of family and faith. they believe in freedom and limited government. those are conservative republican vo

senator rob portman from ohio would be an interesting candidate.ut there who are looking at it. i think it's going to be a wide open race. it will be interesting to see who captures -- you know, you can imagine in a race with a big field, a candidate with a relatively small majority, 22%, 23%, 24% in primaries could win the primaries and get the nomination. >> do you think it will be a less exciting race in some ways, simply because the economy has recovered? in other words, the issues are going to -- there's obviously still a lot of economic focus but the issues will have to be broadened out and not just be about the economy recovering. >> i don't think there's any question that 2008 was a unique period to have an election. i was in the white house at the time and if you remember, the suspended campaign of senator mccain and we had both presidential candidates come to the white house for a meeting, right in the midst of the election season. we're not going so see -- i hope we don't see that kind of drama and let's all hope we are talking about an

. >> republican senator rob portman member of the budget committee and democratic congressman chris vanhollen at the federal budget tuesday. we'll bring you that event here on c-span. >> the idea behind 215 and 250 instead of trying to tell the entire history of st. louis as a time line, we would absolutely miss vitally important things. instead of trying to do that and failing, we decided what if we just gave snapshots of st. louis history that would give people a glimpse of all the diverse things that happened here and they can use your imagination to fill in the rest. we chose 50 people, 50 places, 50 image and 50 objects. and tried to choose the most diverse selections. this is what most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. brewing is such a huge part of st. louis's history. it's an amazing story with lots of different breweries and of course the most famous became anheuser-busch with the largest in the world. in the era of anheuser-busch talking about millions of barrels produced each year, this is from an era when things were simpl

we will need first with the senate, said rob portman. >> thank you. bob is right. we worked together in the past. it is good to be with him. he has worked with republicans and democrats on the drug issue and has been an advocate for not the current approach to drug abuse and the date to -- addiction but rather one that focuses on education, treatment, and recovery. this is one of the issues of that although we will not talk about directly is an example of something on the discretionary part of the budget that is getting squeezed more and more as we do not deal with the larger problem on the mandatory spending seven the budget. maybe keep in mind, that is an example of a program like the second chance act that i offered some years ago. the discretionary side even though it actually is a program that is not a top down washington program and saves money because it encourages states and localities to put in place prisoner reentry programs that keep people of the revolving door and encourages and is successful in getting people into productive lives where they're taxpay

rob portman was immeasurable help. so many members whose ideas were incorporated in this bill. i am appreciative of each and every one of them and i think the american people will too. i want to highlight a couple of things that are so important. unlike most things government does, we've scaled down the size of work force investment boards in the states and in the local communities. so they're working numbers, not so big and unwieldy. more money into training and less into bureaucracy. we scaled down a number of programs and consolidated to maximize the federal dollar to geft he benefit at the state level. we gave the state level the authority to determine the curriculum that was lest for washington or georgia. washington is not a one-size-fits-all town and work force development is not a one-size-fits-all crew issue. through the labor developments of the states we're going to empower them to train people for the jobs they need in their state, not the jobs washington might think they might have needed in their state. that's a tremendous advance forward in this legislation and e

he has given money to mitt romney, john boehner and rob portman. a guy with management experience.ickly and give him a chance. >> i think not picking a general or somebody who had been career military was a good move. you heard this especially in the senate after all the va scandal came out. they were looking for someone management before military. >> this pick us because of the business background, military background, inoculates them from any potential attacks from republicans. do republicans in the senate in confirming him really want to pick a fight over this? veterans issues are so important in our society. people don't want to pick a fight and a little bit size this. >> he said bob mcdonald is a good man. he wants to make sure the president gets in the mandate to change the issues. here's an interesting storiment the fallout from the mississippi senate runoff. incumbent republican winner beats a tea party challenger because of the support of african-americans who crossed over. most said they were lifelong democrats. they crossed over. now the caucus says, great, great. we hop

>> mountain biking with senator rob portman.u can go hiking and you can do your hike with governor romney and hank pallson. or wait until tomorrow and you can hike with mitt and tag, his oldest son. >> there you go. >> okay. that sounds like fun actually. actually, those weekends it actually does get a lot of people with changing ideas and talking. sounds like a great time. >> politico's mike allen, have fun on the mountain bikes. we'll see you. >>> coming up, the world cup officially underway, but the scene outside the stadium was nothing to celebrate. the latest from brazil next on "morning joe." ♪ she keeps you on your toes. you wouldn't have it any other way. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet approved to treat ed and symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently or urgently. tell your doctor about all your medi

rand paul doing this and marco rubio doing it and rob portman. lot of republican senators who realize this is broken. the party has a huge branding problem and they are not going as as far as some of these guys in mississippi saying this is crazy. >> i'm excited. very excited. we expanded the base and let's keep expanding the base and let's get voters to vote for conservative republicans next time and expand the base. we have tons to talk about. did you see hillary? >> i did. >> and what she had to say about her money and her husband and he she doesn't need bubba defending her? >> hillary clinton's media blitz continues with more questions about her financial status. the former secretary of state recently said she was dead broke after leaving the white house and despite making millions since, insists she truly is not truly well off. her husband came to her defense but clinton argued yesterday she can stand on her own two feet. >> i shouldn't have said, i think, five or so words that i said. but, you know, my inartful use of those few words doesn'

portman,, senator rob mike huckabee, senator rand paul, all mingling with romney donors. guest: so is brian schweitzer, the one democrat who could possibly run against hillary clinton, which is interesting. what is interesting about the you talk about the 9/11 switch for her from democrat to more hawkish security, she is what the bush people would have identified as a security mom. that's what they felt were the swing voters in 2000 and 2004. there is that pocket of who they see as a suburban security mom, who they feel like is a group open to a republican message, especially on national security. outink as was pointed earlier, polling across the board has shown the world weariness that less lines up with doing more and more lining up with doing less. host: mitt, 2016? guest: i just think that is a fantasy. it is fun to say, it looks like he is thinking more about running than before, but i think this is about legacy. if you watch the mitt documentary, it got under their skin. they felt like they were made to be a joke. he feels like his family -- he is a guy who is reall

portman,, senator rob mike huckabee, senator rand paul, all mingling with romney donors. guest: so is brian schweitzer, the one democrat who could possibly run against hillary clinton, which is interesting. what is interesting about the you talk about the 9/11 switch for her from democrat to more hawkish security, she is what the bush people would have identified as a security mom. that's what they felt were the swing voters in 2000 and 2004. there is that pocket of who they see as a suburban security mom, who they feel like is a group open to a republican message, especially on national security. outink as was pointed earlier, polling across the board has shown the world weariness that less lines up with doing more and more lining up with doing less. host: mitt, 2016? guest: i just think that is a fantasy. it is fun to say, it looks like he is thinking more about running than before, but i think this is about legacy. if you watch the mitt documentary, it got under their skin. they felt like they were made to be a joke. he feels like his family -- he is a guy who is reall

director like mitch daniels and rob portman did. now senator portman submitted a balanced budget when he was o.m.b. director under president bush. she has not submitted any reforms really to bring our government under control. and o.m.b., and one of the concerns i had about her appointment was that it's such a critical part of our government. you have to have a strong o.m.b. director to control this massive government and control wasteful spending. that's the president's right a arm. that's the person who brings the cabinet secretaries in and say, "you're spending money. i hear complaints about waste. i hear about duplication. the president wants you to fix this." we should be -- we saw none of that under her leadership. so her tenure at o.m.b. evidenced no drive to even tackle the magnitude of our financial challenges. she proposed to bust the spending caps that congress and the president agreed to. she proposed to bust the spending caps that congress and the president agreed to while trying to suggest otherwise. she ignored the me

support of senate 1044, the world war ii memorial prayer act, legislation introduced by senator rob portman and that recently passed the senate by unanimous consent. i introduce company -- introduced companion legislation in this session of congress and in the 112th session. in fact, the house passed my legislation on january 24, 201, by a vote of 386-26. unfortunately, the senate failed to act in 2012. however, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of d-day this year, the senate came around and passed this legislation. once we passed this bill -- we pass this bill today, it will go to the president's desk and i hope he wastes no time signing it into law this legislation directs the secretary of the interior to install in the world war ii memorial a suitable plaque or inscription with the words president franklin roosevelt prayed with the nation on the morning of the d-day invasion this prayer, which has been entitled "let our hearts be stout" gave solace, comfort and strength to our nation and our bravor worse as we fought against tyranny and oppression. the memorial was built to honor the 16

portman,, senator rob mike huckabee, senator rand paul, all mingling with romney donors.st: so is brian schweitzer, the one democrat who could possibly run against hillary clinton, which is interesting. what is interesting about the you talk about the 9/11 switch for her from democrat to more hawkish security, she is what the bush people would have identified as a security mom. that's what they felt were the swing voters in 2000 and 2004. there is that pocket of who they see as a suburban security mom, who they feel like is a group open to a republican message, especially on national security. outink as was pointed earlier, polling across the board has shown the world weariness that less lines up with doing more and more lining up with doing less. host: mitt, 2016? guest: i just think that is a fantasy. it is fun to say, it looks like he is thinking more about running than before, but i think this is about legacy. if you watch the mitt documentary, it got under their skin. they felt like they were made to be a joke. he feels like his family -- he is a guy who is really su