Katie Porter is a member of the U.S. House from California’s 47th Congressional District. She is a member of the Democratic Party. On January 3, 2023, she took office. The time she is in office ends on January 3, 2025.
Porter ran for re-election to the U.S. House. On November 8, 2022, she won the general election.
Katie Porter to run for US Senate in California
Rep. Katie Porter, a Democrat from California, said on Tuesday that she will run for the seat held by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, another Democrat and the oldest person in the Senate.
In a video posted to Twitter, Porter said, “Especially in times like these, California needs a warrior in Washington.” “That’s exactly why I’m running for the U.S. Senate in 2024,” she said.
Katie Porter’s Bio, Age
Katie Porter was born in the Iowa town of Fort Dodge. Porter got her B.A. in 1996 from Yale University and her J.D. in 2001 from Harvard University. Porter was born on January 3, 1974, in a small farming community in Iowa, where he grew up. Her farmer father became a banker. Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting was started by her mother, Liz.
She has worked as a law professor at the University of California at Irvine, as a consumer and bankruptcy lawyer for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the World Bank, the Federal Judicial Center, and the Uniform Law Commission, and as a legal assistant for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Body Measurements
- Height: 5 feet 5 inches
- Weight: 78 kg
- Hair Color: Dark Brown
- Eye Color: Green
Career
In March 2020, she asked Robert R. Redfield, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, five questions to get him to agree to use the agency’s legal power to make COVID-19 testing free for all Americans.
Porter later went to Harvard Law School, where she was the Notes editor for the Harvard Women’s Law Journal. She went to school with Elizabeth Warren, who is now a U.S. senator, and got her Juris Doctor in 2001.
Porter introduced the “Help America Run Act” (H.R.1623) in March 2019. This bill would let people running for the House or Senate use campaign donations to pay for healthcare premiums, care for older people, care for children, and care for people who depend on them. In October 2019, the bill passed the House and went to the Senate for a final vote.
Her questions in front of the House Financial Services Committee also got a lot of attention. In March 2019, her questions caught Wells Fargo CEO Tim Sloan disagreeing with what his corporate lawyers were saying in court.
According to documents lawyers submitted, Sloan had said in the past that his promises of transparency were “corporate puffery.” Porter got a lot of attention in April 2019 when she asked JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon how a Chase bank teller should make up a $567 difference between her monthly budget and her paycheck.
In May 2019, she asked Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson about “REOs,” which are real estate-owned properties. He thought she was talking about Oreo cookies. She also asked Kathy Kraninger, the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, to solve some math problems about annual percentage rates on payday loans which Kraninger refused.
Porter ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 45th congressional district against Republican Mimi Walters, who had been in office for two terms. Porter beat Walters and became the first Democrat to represent the 45th district or one of its predecessors since it was made in 1983.
Her win was part of a Democratic sweep of Orange County, which was thought to be a conservative home for a long time. For the first time since 1936, the Democrats won all four Republican seats in Orange County. This includes Porter’s seat. They now have all seven county seats.
In March 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris chose Porter to be the state’s independent monitor of banks as part of a $25 billion mortgage settlement across the country. As a monitor, she made sure that the $9.5 billion in settlement changes for Californians were carried out by the banks.
When Porter ran for Congress, she did not take money from corporate PACs. End Citizens United, a political action committee that wants to overturn the 2010 Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, gave her their support. Porter has said that she wants to change the laws about how to pay for campaigns and protect people’s right to vote.
Porter worked as a legal assistant in Little Rock for Judge Richard S. Arnold of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit. She worked as a lawyer for the Portland firm Stoel Rives LLP and was in charge of the Business Bankruptcy Project for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges.
Porter taught law at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas School of Law as an assistant professor. In 2005, she became an assistant law professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. In 2011 she became a full-time professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Who is Katie Porter’s Husband?
Katie is currently single. Previously she was married to Matthew Hoffman. They got married in 2003.
During her campaign, she said that her husband physically and mentally abused her. Porter says that her husband hit her, pushed her one-year-old daughter across the kitchen, threatened to kill himself, and called her and her family names. The couple broke up in 2013, and Porter now has custody of their children on her own.
What is Katie Porter’s Net Worth?
Katie has an estimated net worth of $1.5 million.