Rob Portman

Sep 24, 2024 | aei.org | Rob Portman

Former Senator and AEI Distinguished Visiting Fellow Rob Portman speaking at the 2024 ConocoPhillips White House Lecture at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, emphasized the critical role of voter engagement in strengthening democracy and called for bipartisan cooperation to address America’s most pressing challenges, urging citizens to support leaders who prioritize results over rigid ideology. Read about the lecture here. VIDEO

Aug 1, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Anna Kriebel |Joseph Roche |Rob Portman |John Mccormack

The war in Ukraine means participants from those nations are competing in Paris as ‘individual neutral athletes.’ Published August 1, 2024  • Updated July 31, 2024 When men’s and women’s team gymnastics medals were awarded at the Paris Games this week, a nation long accustomed to being on the podium in that sport was absent. In January 2023, the International Olympic Committee banned Russia from Olympic participation for waging war on Ukraine.

Jul 11, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Joseph Roche |Rob Portman |Tim Mak |Nick Catoggio

Nikita, 19, had just started his workday in a downtown Kyiv garage when he was thrown to the ground by an explosion. “I thought we were dead. Everything was shaking around us. Then we realized the impact hit Okhmatdyt right next door.”Okhmatdyt, the country’s largest children’s hospital, was targeted Monday as Russian forces launched a new wave of attacks across Ukraine. Lacking sufficient air defense, the Ukrainian army intercepted only fired.

Jun 19, 2024 | thedispatch.com | Joseph Roche |Rob Portman |Tim Mak |Mary Trimble

KHARKIV OBLAST, Ukraine—An old green Soviet Lada, speeding, skids on a dirt road. Behind the car, thick black smoke billows into the June sky. A Russian Grad missile has just hit a small village about 10 kilometers from the front. A hundred meters away, hidden by a camouflage net, in front of a 19th-century wooden house, Sacha, a soldier of the 247th Kharkiv Territorial Defense Brigade, goes about his morning ritual.

May 11, 2024 | myemail-api.constantcontact.com | Monte Erfourth |Rob Portman |Michael Martina |Alexander Ward

Quotes of the Day:"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises." – Samuel Butler"Whether it be the intrusion of hackers, a major explosion at the World Trade Center, or a bombing attack by Bin Laden, all of these greatly exceed the frequency of bandwidth understood by the American military." – Unrestricted Warfare, 1999"A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.