Portman Hails Senate Passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) issued the following statement after the U.S. Senate voted to approve the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act by a bipartisan vote of 69-30.
Instead of more partisan spending and tax hikes that would only fuel inflation, we should be working together to lower costs to consumers through regulatory relief and other pro-growth economic policies.
This is only going to hurt American families by taking more money out of their pocketbooks and increasing their costs at a time when they are already struggling with surging inflation.
Americans are suffering through record high inflation and the Democrats’ latest “Inflation Reduction Act” will increase costs for consumers and raise their taxes. The U.S. economy has seen two straight quarters of declining economic growth because of the Biden admin's polic
The administration has still failed to answer key questions about what went wrong and why. It’s important for our government to learn from our mistakes so we don’t repeat them. I call on the admin to give a full accounting of the situation so it doesn’t happen again.