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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsICYMI - Great article on Katie Porter. Dem Making Conservatives Squirm
https://newrepublic.com/article/155268/house-representative-katie-porter-schools-ben-carson-orea-jamie-dimon?The Freshman Democrat Whos Making Conservatives Squirm
Californias Katie Porter studied under Elizabeth Warren. Now shes going viral by schooling Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Unlike some of her fellow freshmen, Representative Katie Porter of California has managed to escape the ire of the current occupant of the White House. While she isnt exactly rushing to take part in the Squads frequent Twitter smackdowns with the president, she is on friendly terms with the four women who make up the most controversial clique in her class. She sits next to Rashida Tlaib in committee and recently wrote a joint letter with another Squad member, Ayanna Pressley, as well as Elizabeth Warren, on debt collection.
These women share many of the same prioritiesMedicare for All, reproductive and LGBTQ rights, a desire to get corporate money out of politics (in 2018, while running in conservative Orange County, Porter refused to take PAC money)but, today, she conveys cautious, considered pragmatism more often than idealism or militant fire.
Her background as a law professor, a textbook author, a consumer protection attorney who studied under Warren at Harvard, and a single mother of three has helped to equip her with an even-keel approach, an incisive analytical mind, and a boundless well of patiencequalities that have served her well during her customarily rigorous preparation for congressional hearings, which often begins around midnight, when she gets home from Capitol Hill.
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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ICYMI - Great article on Katie Porter. Dem Making Conservatives Squirm (Original Post)
blm
Jan 2020
OP
LakeArenal
(28,820 posts)1. She's high on my list for a position somewhere.
Love Katie.
NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)5. Senator next?
If Harris makes VP or AG? Or, down the road, if Feinstein retires.
Chief of Staff? Commerce Secretary?
blm
(113,065 posts)16. I think Sec Treasury in Warren cabinet.
samnsara
(17,622 posts)2. shes going far!!!
Kurt V.
(5,624 posts)3. katie porter :)
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. Porter's an example of why I try to choose for character and capability.
Electing newbies to congress is often a crapshoot, and it can take years to get them out again, if ever. Porter's already impressive record and those of people who sponsored her were about as much as you can ask for. When impressive people who've already proven themselves the right stuff are impressed, you're probably choosing a winner.
Go, Katie!
yonder
(9,666 posts)8. It's impossible to not click for a Katie Porter story.
She is tops in my book.
Tech
(1,771 posts)10. She is impressive.
Mickju
(1,803 posts)11. Katie Porter is top notch.
We are lucky to have her in Congress.
blm
(113,065 posts)12. WE are. Jamie Dimon and his predator pals are not glad she's there.
Heh.
Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)13. Rep Katie Porter OWNS me
that is all!
Kid Berwyn
(14,909 posts)14. Ms. Porter would make an outstanding Impeachment Manager.
Shed grab em by the nose and kick em in the pants!
blm
(113,065 posts)15. Matter-of-factly. Without a bit of theater.
The way congress SHOULD act every day.