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Marco Rubio isn't the only rookie Republican senator from a swing state to generate considerable vice presidential buzz as Mitt Romney looks for a running mate.
PORTMAN ADMITS HE’S ‘BORING’ Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, is often handed the boring white guy description when talking about potential vice presidential picks, and in an in depth Washington Post profile of the first term Ohio senator, he admits, “I told my staff that I’m...
He had received a phone call just that morning from a supporter furious about yet another newspaper story suggesting that he was boring. It was not the best of days for Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, a man thought to be on Mitt Romney’s list of possible running mates. “I told my staff that I’m so boring that I didn’t even know I was boring,” he said at a large conference table, surrounded by several ...
The story kicks off with a supporter of Portman's calling him to complain about "yet another newspaper story suggesting that he was boring." "I told my staff that I'm so boring that I didn't even know I was boring," Portman says.
Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) today sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for more information on a $20 million public relations contract to tout the president's health care law.
Beltway chatterers say Sen. Rob Portman is too boring to help presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney win the White House, but there's one kind of trail on which the Ohio Republican defies conventional wisdom.
The trial of John Edwards is a powerful reminder of what's at stake when picking a vice presidential candidate, and that just might work to Ohio Sen. Rob Portman's advantage, writes The Plain Dealer's Joe Frolik.
The 2010 opponents in Ohio's U.S. Senate race had a cordial reunion Friday, with the defeated Democrat pointing to winner Rob Portman's frequent mentions now as a possible Republican presidential running mate.
Nothing is easier to mock in politics right now than the apparent reluctance of leading Republicans to sign on as Mitt Romney’s second banana. A few weeks ago, Jon Stewart summarized the way that Rob Portman was plugging his Senate colleague Marco Rubio, who in turn was passing the baton to Jeb Bush, with the line, “Doesn’t anyone want the rock in crunch time?”
The minute Sen. Rob Portman, the Republican from Ohio who helped Mitt Romney win his state’s primary, walked into the room, I knew that he would be the Republican vice presidential candidate.
The 2010 opponents in Ohio's U.S. Senate race have a cordial reunion, with the defeated Democrat pointing to winner Rob Portman's frequent mentions now as a possible Republican presidential running mate.
Freshman Republican Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio said Saturday the Democrat's budget before Congress would double the country's national debt. In the party's weekly radio and Internet address, Portman denounced President Barack Obama's 2011 proposed budget as a failure.
U.S. Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio says taking more action on federal debt and deficits and making America more competitive will help the nation's cities.
Portman says he's "where I need to be right now, in the U.S. Senate, where I can do the most good for the state and the country."
Among Republican insiders, there’s a growing consensus that Rob Portman—unassuming, polite, and experienced—should be Mitt Romney’s vice presidential pick.
Sen. Rob Portman told a New York City audience Monday he was better suited to stay put in the U.S. Senate than be vice president. Today, he sounded more like Mitt Romney’s running mate — using a number of public appearances to promote the presumptive...