The Senate hopeful in California wants to join the Progressive Caucus. He never voted for a Progressive Caucus budget.
Katie Porter
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Lefties Amok: California’s Upcoming Senate Race
Four Democratic House members draw a bead on the seat Feinstein will vacate.
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Katie Porter’s Volunteer Army Hits the Doors
The progressive fighter in a swing district is staking a third term on a prodigious volunteer effort, and straight talk on abortion and the economy.
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Katie Porter Versus … Lanny Davis?
The veteran Clinton lawyer is representing a developer accused of bribing Trump’s Deputy Secretary of the Interior.
Posted inLaw and Justice
House Democrats Grill Pentagon About Sexual Assault Tracking
Citing Prospect reporting, Reps. Katie Porter and Jackie Speier want to know whether the military is improving its sexual crimes database.
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Why Katie Porter Isn’t on the House Financial Services Committee
Committee Chair Maxine Waters appears to have a problem with fierce questioning and progressive financial reform.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Katie Porter Talks Supply Chains and Bailouts
Also, the demographic tragedy of the crisis, and Wells Fargo’s lobbying succeeds, sort of. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for April 9, 2020.
Posted inCoronavirus
Unsanitized: Private Equity Licks Its Chops
Plus Medicare for All (who have coronavirus), and voting remotely in Congress. This is The COVID-19 Daily Report for March 19, 2020.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Congress’s New Progressives Take On the Banks
The House Financial Services Committee—long a landing place for pro-bank Democrats—now includes AOC and a flock of leftists. And Maxine Waters is its new chair.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
How the Blue Wave Swelled to a Tsunami in Orange County
What convinced the birthplace of modern American conservatism to send only Democrats to Washington?