"I may sound naive, since everyone's decided the next two years are going to be all about 2016, but I look at what's happened over the years when there's been divided government. That's when we've done tax reform, that's when we've done entitlement reform - to move this economy forward on these big issues."
Rob Portman is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Ohio from 2011 to 2023. Before the Senate, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held cabinet-level roles including U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget. Portman is associated with center-right Republican policy on fiscal and trade issues.