Katie Porter actually said...

"Taxpayers deserve to know that their money is being spent effectively."

"I do think that when we, as taxpayers, invest in data, that it ought to be shared as much as possible."

"Congress provides far less funding for the Department of the Interior to monitor diseases in wildlife than it does for the Department of Agriculture to monitor diseases in domesticated animals."

"I think one of the concerns is, without the kind of work that you are doing, without digging into that research, we can't accurately count how many wildlife-related cases there are."