State Sen. Matt Dolan, who is considering a run for the U.S. Senate, said he’s not concerned he’d be joining a crowded Republican field for the job.

“Reviewing all the candidate in the race with fundraising, most of the Ohio donors are not engaged yet,” he said. “It tells me they’re looking for someone different.”

Dolan, of Chagrin Falls, a two-term state senator and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said he started touring the state July 13 to hear from people as he considers a run for the U.S. Senate seat.

Dolan said he’ll have a decision around Labor Day. He said he’s visited 21 of the state’s 88 counties so far.

Dolan returned to the Mahoning Valley for the Mahoning County Farm Bureau’s annual meeting Tuesday in Columbiana. He visited Youngstown on July 14.

He said, “Once people understand that I’m somebody that’s actually gotten things done as opposed to anyone else in the race in terms of cutting taxes, lessening regulations, expanding school choice, issues that matter to people so when I talk about what I want to get done in Washington — secure the border, make an economic climate, make the United States strong economically — they begin to realize this is someone who knows what he’s doing and he can get it done.”

The declared Republicans seeking that political party’s nomination for the open seat include Josh Mandel, a former state treasurer; former Ohio Republican Party Chairwoman Jane Timken; businessmen Bernie Moreno, Mike Gibbons and Mark Pukita; and J.D. Vance, author and venture capitalist.

U.S. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Terrace Park, announced Jan. 25 that he wouldn’t seek a third six-year term next year.

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland is the only declared Democrat for the seat.

Portman was the leading Republican on the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package that passed Tuesday in the Senate by a 69 to 30 vote, including 19 Republicans in support.

While several of the declared Republican Senate candidates said they would have voted against the package, Dolan said he backs it.

“I would have voted yes for the bill,” he said. “I would have looked really hard to make sure it was clean. They did a good job on that. I’m hoping it can make its way through the process.”

Dolan added: “Am I going to go to Washington and actually engage and do the hard work necessary to get good things to happen for our country? Yes. In that sense, yes, very much. I think it’s very sad that there’s a lot of folks running who are proudly saying they’re not going to do anything.”