Sen. Rob Portman chats with NRO:

You may not have read much about him in the papers lately. Portman — a 55-year-old former congressman who served George W. Bush as budget chief — was one of the GOP’s high-profile success stories in 2010, a Beltway player with deep Midwestern roots. Yet since taking office, the comer has kept a decidedly low profile.
Other GOP freshmen, such as Sens. Pat Toomey (Pa.) and Rand Paul (Ky.), have produced their own budgets. Portman has not done that, but he has hardly been on the sidelines.
Portman is a fiscal expert, to be sure, but his focus since January has been economic. In early May, he authored the conference’s comprehensive jobs plan, a multifaceted growth memorandum. The document calls for tax cuts, a balanced budget, less onerous regulation, and free trade. Increased energy production, repealing Obamacare, and killing card-check are other key components.

More from the Ohio Republican here.