Senator Rob Portman should support people over party
letter to the editor
Senator Rob Portman should support people over party
To the Editor:
Senator Rob Portman does not always vote in the best interests of Ohioans.
Currently, he is working to eliminate federal regulations protecting our air, water, medication and working conditions. He votes for cabinet nominees unfit for their offices, compromised financially by the industries they oversee or diametrically opposed to the mission of the agencies they helm. He has voted against America’s college students in favor of tax breaks for millionaires. Senator Portman votes along party lines (regardless of the harm to Ohioans) 87 percent of the time. Now he will vote on the nation’s health care.
Uncharacteristically, Portman opposed the Republican plan, more so because his party developed the new bill in secret with zero hours of debate or Democratic input, despite the GOP’s complaints that the Affordable Care Act’s development did not allow enough debate and Republican input after hundreds of hours of both and over 100 amendments from Republicans were added.
This new bill will rob 22 million Americans of health care. It will render the elderly, disabled and sick unable to receive needed care, and this from the party that touts its religious devotion.
Rob Portman should support people over party and vote against the bill.
Michael Sepesy
Cleveland
To the Editor:
Senator Rob Portman does not always vote in the best interests of Ohioans.
Currently, he is working to eliminate federal regulations protecting our air, water, medication and working conditions. He votes for cabinet nominees unfit for their offices, compromised financially by the industries they oversee or diametrically opposed to the mission of the agencies they helm. He has voted against America’s college students in favor of tax breaks for millionaires. Senator Portman votes along party lines (regardless of the harm to Ohioans) 87 percent of the time. Now he will vote on the nation’s health care.
Uncharacteristically, Portman opposed the Republican plan, more so because his party developed the new bill in secret with zero hours of debate or Democratic input, despite the GOP’s complaints that the Affordable Care Act’s development did not allow enough debate and Republican input after hundreds of hours of both and over 100 amendments from Republicans were added.
This new bill will rob 22 million Americans of health care. It will render the elderly, disabled and sick unable to receive needed care, and this from the party that touts its religious devotion.
Rob Portman should support people over party and vote against the bill.
Michael Sepesy
Cleveland
