Katherine Moore Porter was born on January 3,1974 and is an American politician, law professor, and lawyer who is the US representative from California's 47th congressional district since 2023, previously representing the 45th congressional district from 2019 to 2023.
31 Facts About Katie Porter
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Katie Porter is the first Democrat to be elected to represent the 45th district, covering much of south-central Orange County, including Irvine, Tustin, and Lake Forest along with large portions of Anaheim and Laguna Niguel.
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Katie Porter was reelected in 2022 in the newly redistricted 47th congressional district.
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Katie Porter is deputy chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and has received media attention for her questioning during congressional hearings.
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Katie Porter declined to seek reelection to the United States House of Representatives in 2024 and became a candidate in the 2024 United States Senate election in California, to succeed retiring incumbent Dianne Feinstein.
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Katie Porter was born on January 3,1974, in Fort Dodge, Iowa.
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Katie Porter was a member of Grace Hopper College at Yale.
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Katie Porter later attended Harvard Law School, where she was the notes editor for the Harvard Women's Law Journal and a member of the Board of Student Advisers.
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Katie Porter practiced with the law firm of Stoel Rives LLP in Portland, Oregon, and was the project director for the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges' Business Bankruptcy Project.
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Katie Porter was an associate professor of law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Law.
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In March 2012, California Attorney General Kamala Harris appointed Katie Porter to be the state's independent monitor of banks in a nationwide $25 billion mortgage settlement.
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Katie Porter defeated Walters to become the first Democrat to represent the 45th district or its predecessors since it was created in 1953.
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Katie Porter's win was part of a historic night for Democrats that saw them take every seat in the historically Republican county, including all four centered in the county.
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Katie Porter did not accept corporate PAC money in her bid for Congress.
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Katie Porter was endorsed by End Citizens United, a political action committee seeking to overturn the US Supreme Court 2010 decision Citizens United v Federal Election Commission.
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Katie Porter has cited an overhaul of campaign finance laws and protection of voting rights as legislative priorities.
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Katie Porter became the first non-Hispanic Democrat in 38 years to win a second term in an Orange County-based district.
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Katie Porter attracted attention for her questioning on the House Financial Services Committee.
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Katie Porter asked Consumer Financial Protection Bureau director Kathy Kraninger, a Trump appointee who had extensive experience in homeland security but little in consumer finance, to solve basic math problems about annual percentage rates on payday loans, which Kraninger declined to do.
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In March 2020, Porter used five minutes of questioning to get the chief of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robert R Redfield, to agree to use its legal authority to make testing for the COVID-19 virus free for all Americans.
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At an August 24,2020, Congressional hearing, Katie Porter questioned Postmaster General Louis DeJoy.
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Katie Porter admitted to her that he did not know the cost of mailing a postcard or a smaller greeting card, the starting rate for US Priority Mail, or how many Americans voted by mail in the 2016 elections.
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Katie Porter received recognition for being one of the first Democrats in a swing district to support an impeachment inquiry based on the findings of Robert Mueller's Special Counsel investigation.
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Katie Porter voted for both the first and second impeachments of Donald Trump.
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Katie Porter voted for the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act on November 5,2021.
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Katie Porter served as one of three co-chairs of the Elizabeth Warren 2020 presidential campaign.
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On January 10,2023, Katie Porter announced her candidacy in the 2024 election for the US Senate from California.
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Katie Porter is supported by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee which is a PAC and the Women Have Initiative To Elect, Boost, and Organize for A Real Democrat Super Pac.
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In 2003, Katie Porter married Matthew Hoffman, with whom she has three children.
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Katie Porter sought a protective order against him in 2013.
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Katie Porter is a single mother with custody of their children.