Editing Rob Portman (section)

===Budget and economy===
Portman is a leading advocate for a [[balanced budget amendment]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Frank|last=Lewis|url=http://portsmouth-dailytimes.com/bookmark/11169630|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201042415/http://portsmouth-dailytimes.com/bookmark/11169630|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 1, 2013|title=Portman, other Republicans propose balanced budget amendment|work=[[Portsmouth Daily Times]]|year=2011|access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref> Portman worked with Democratic Senator [[Jon Tester]] in 2012 to end the practice of government shutdowns and partnered with Democratic Senator [[Claire McCaskill]] on an inquiry into the Obama administration's public relations spending.<ref name="aap14-bio">''Almanac of American Politics'' 2014, p. 1299.</ref>  Portman has proposed "a balanced approach to the deficit" by reforming entitlement programs, writing "[r]eforms should not merely squeeze health beneficiaries or providers but should rather reshape key aspects of these programs to make them more efficient, flexible and consumer-oriented."<ref>{{cite news|first=Rob|last=Portman|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324640104578161252979458718?mod=googlenews_wsj|title=A Truly Balanced Approach to the Deficit|newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]]|location=New York City|date=December 10, 2012|access-date=December 15, 2012}}</ref>  Portman became known for his ability to work in a bipartisan fashion when working to pass a repeal of the excise tax on telephone service.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sen. Rob Portman|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/almanac/member/1888|website=National Journal Almanac|access-date=August 16, 2014}}</ref> He also unsuccessfully proposed an amendment to the surface transportation reauthorization bill to allow states to keep the gas tax money they collect, instead of sending it to Washington with some returned later.<ref name="aap14-bio" /> On August 10, 2021, he was one of 19 Republican senators to vote with the Democratic caucus in favor of the [[Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Farrington|first=Dana|date=August 10, 2021|title=Here Are The Republicans Who Voted For The Infrastructure Bill In The Senate|language=en|work=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/2021/08/10/1026486578/senate-republican-votes-infrastructure-bill|access-date=November 6, 2021}}</ref> In October 2021, Portman voted with 10 other Republicans and every member of the Democratic caucus to end the filibuster on raising the [[United States debt ceiling|debt ceiling]],<ref>{{Cite web|author=Paul LeBlanc|title=Here are the 11 Senate Republicans that joined Democrats to break the debt limit deal filibuster|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/07/politics/republican-debt-ceiling-filibuster-list/index.html|access-date=October 8, 2021|website=[[CNN]]|date=October 8, 2021 }}</ref> but voted against the bill to raise the debt ceiling.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Meyer|first=Mal|date=October 8, 2021|title=Sen. Collins joins vote to break filibuster, but against $480B increase to debt ceiling|url=https://wgme.com/news/local/sen-collins-joins-vote-to-break-filibuster-but-against-480b-increase-to-debt-ceiling|access-date=October 10, 2021|website=WGME}}</ref>