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From her position on the House Financial Services Committee, Porter has staged neatly surgical dissections of testimony. If she senses a lack of preparation, she approaches her target with all the languid menace of a coiled python. As witnesses like JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon and Housing Secretary Ben Carson have discovered, when Porter strikes, it leaves a mark.
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When she isnt skewering witnesses before the Financial Services Committee, Porter focuses on health care and childcare legislation. As a single mother, she receives a scant $345 per month in child support from her former partner, whom she divorced in 2013. (The $5,000 limit for workers using fixed savings accounts to pay for childcare hasnt been updated since 1986.) A survivor of domestic abuse, she is intent on improving access to psychiatrists, whom she struggled to find for her family. Years later, a provision to guarantee better care found its way into her bill on mental health parity.
https://newrepublic.com/article/155268/house-representative-katie-porter-schools-ben-carson-orea-jamie-dimon
Midnight Writer
(21,738 posts)patphil
(6,164 posts)tblue37
(65,276 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,410 posts)her taking over when Dianne Feinstein retires looks pretty damn good to this Californian.
blm
(113,040 posts)Sharpest knife in the drawer.
TryLogic
(1,722 posts)DrToast
(6,414 posts)Guaranteed to be a force in politics for as long as she wants.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,574 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)Shes a bright star on the rise. This nation will be better for it.
Wounded Bear
(58,634 posts)while Katie is quietly doing her job. There is nobody the Repubs hate worse than someone who just does their job and can't be corrupted.
to Katie Porter.
LeftTurn3623
(628 posts)Cant we be happy we have a lot of great new people representing
Wounded Bear
(58,634 posts)The media likes her because she's attractive, and she is "controversial" in some of her proposals, which in reality are no more radical than what Bernie and Ms Warren are pushing. She generates clicks and views.
Ms Porter is doing great work, if not as much press coverage.
And thanks to the mods for reading my appeal and allowing me to respond to your post.
Rebl2
(13,485 posts)Katie, like you say, is laying low and doing her job and doing a great job if you ask me.
vsrazdem
(2,177 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I have so much respect and admiration for her. I hope she has a long career in politics. We need more like her.
TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)....keeping their heads down and doing their jobs without fanfare. They're excellent and are going to be heard from for a long time.
Katie Porter, Katie Hill (also from California), Lauren Underwood, Deb Haaland, Sharice Davids, Lucy McBath, Jahana Hayes.
StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)Keeps a low profile, but is doing an outstanding job.
George II
(67,782 posts)....I contributed to both her primary and general election campaigns last year. It was pretty exciting to see her turn district blue by defeating that horrible republican, Kevin Yoder.
blm
(113,040 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)mountain grammy
(26,613 posts)But Both are fighters for working people and both make me proud to be a Democrat because theyre BOTH Democrats. No sarcasm necessary.
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)FakeNoose
(32,620 posts)✔️✔️✔️
George II
(67,782 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)They both speak unequivocally...no politics first...they exemplify knowing pure right from wrong!
mountain grammy
(26,613 posts)they are US.. AOC worked as a bartender through college, Katie a single mother. They are every one of us.
Bettie
(16,086 posts)a Democrat because they enjoy bashing her so much.
Me? I think that a lot of the newer reps are doing a great job...though mine keeps quiet and, as far as I've seen, has done nothing but follow the pack.
ronnie624
(5,764 posts)understanding that human society needs transformative change in order to survive. She represents the sort of change that scares people. When people are afraid, they become angry and hostile.
that is probably it.
bucolic_frolic
(43,123 posts)I mean they'll have the spooks over this one, toil and trouble, Scarlett Letter, burning at the stake kind of thing.
ismnotwasm
(41,975 posts)TNNurse
(6,926 posts)with knowledge and clarity. She is incredibly polite while doing it.
She is the real deal.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)bdamomma
(63,836 posts)others to remove her from her seat locally, I will donate to her if she is facing this challenge.
blm
(113,040 posts)Jamie Dimon has only cowered in front of two lawmakers .... Porter and Warren.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)Who wants to debate her inthat district or ANY district?
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)pnwmom
(108,973 posts)LakeArenal
(28,813 posts)TeamPooka
(24,218 posts)her seat in the Senate.
pnwmom
(108,973 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)3catwoman3
(23,969 posts)Organized Academic
Rigorous Dignified
Talented Awesome
Erudite Serious
Resolute Steady
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)Lawrence O'Donnell has been very impressed by her and he always invites her back.
ancianita
(36,017 posts)the Treasury, the OMB, some position that manages our trillions. At the very least, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
With her helping AG Kamala Harris or AG Warren, they'd have Panama Papers people quaking.
RainCaster
(10,857 posts)We are amazed at the solidarity and intellect of the incoming class, but we need to let them each mature on their own. They will only get better with age.
ancianita
(36,017 posts)Porter did. None of them.
Some "freshmen" are actually able to hit the ground running for the next president's cabinet.
Katie Porter is at the top of that class. And I wouldn't hold her back.
It's not as if we're not safe enough as a House majority to have another Democrat step up and take here place for her CA district.
"Earning their stripes" wastes time and holds back talent. Some need to earn them, some don't. Porter's already earned hers.
RainCaster
(10,857 posts)What we haven't seen is her skills in driving consensus. That is done quietly, and all we see is the results, not the "how". This is where Bernie is lacking, because of his lone wolf approach.
Being able to achieve consensus is a skill normally done by having a deep rolodex and a long time record of being "bona fide".
ancianita
(36,017 posts)is the master of crunching numbers to put the money face on the flaws of all levels of budget misspending and bad economic priorities. She's compelling.
How can you say she can't build consensus when she just upended the reddest district in California in Orange County? THAT is something no other Democrat had ever done. Think about it.
Don't fall for the male standard of consensus building. There are way better ways to build it than through rolodexes. Men in this government have quickly learned that her style must never be mistaken for weakness.
badhair77
(4,214 posts)with Bill Maher, shes the funniest person on the panel. A tremendous quick wit.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)Funny how we only have a "male" word to designate---freshman.
AdamGG
(1,288 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)Not kidding
Please/thank you
More Katie Porter more often
greatauntoftriplets
(175,731 posts)That sharp, incisive mind will take her far.
SpankMe
(2,957 posts)...I'm thinking the congresswoman is ready for a run at POTUS, if she wants to go through all that.
mcar
(42,298 posts)when other Freshman Dems who, truthfully, haven't accomplished as much, get so much more?
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)She's actually doing her job.
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)Gothmog
(145,079 posts)She is amazing
SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)I love her!
blm
(113,040 posts)sandensea
(21,620 posts)These are people who, by and large, thought Bush was "too moderate" because he "let in too many Mexicans."
Until the 2008 debacle.
bluescribbler
(2,114 posts)She is badass.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)working families about economic issues that actually impact their daily lives and do it using the language of common sense.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)Exposure is definitely their mutual friend. Even RW frother,Sen Tom Cotton, another of Warren's students at Harvard, said "she was tough but the best professor I ever had."
blm
(113,040 posts)Pretty sure she knows how to handle spoiled, narcissistic frat boys.
stuffmatters
(2,574 posts)blm
(113,040 posts)Or....