Katie Porter

So, to summarize, taxpayers are subsidizing, to an eye-popping number, oil and gas drilling from various methods, and we are incentivizing fossil fuels at the expense of clean energy technology.

Have you ever told staff that it is wrong to charge taxpayers lower unit prices on higher-volume orders?

This project is really important to the entire ecosystem of southern California.

I am here today to support the authorization of the Prado Basin ecosystem restoration project.

I urge my colleagues to support the authorization of the Prado Basin ecosystem restoration project.

I think we have to start holding ourselves to account for every dollar that we spend.

The Build Back Better Act really is about work. It’s about our economy.

I was unable to vote on the Motion to Table the Republican Motion to Reconsider, H.R. 6119--Further Extending Government Act. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.'' Stated against:

I think we have achieved the fundamental agreement on the main building blocks of this bill, and I think it`s time for the House to send it back over to the Senate so they can get it over the finish line.

I think there are probably things that we got wrong, I think there are probably things where the Senate is going to be willing to do a little bit better or a little bit different policymaking than we were.

A jury instructed Johnson & Johnson to pay $5 million in damages to Patricia, a retired teacher with two children and four grandchildren. One month later, she died, at age 61, of mesothelioma, an aggressive form of cancer caused by…

Unfortunately not one Republican has wanted to step up and be part of solving some of these problems like elder care and child care, climate change.

Speaker Pelosi, there`s no one better than Speaker Pelosi in making sure that every single vote that is needed has been identified, has been found, has been pinned down and will be delivered.

The president called to express how pleased he is that we are moving forward tomorrow to pass both the Build Back Better Act and the bipartisan infrastructure bill, and he was calling to thank me and others for our hard work, for our…

We are each sent here by our constituents, by the American people to pass policies that are going to help families and create a strong and stable and globally competitive economy.

This is greenwashing. Shell is trying to fool people into thinking that it is addressing the climate crisis.

Our public land belongs to the American people, not to Big Oil.

I thank the chairwoman for recognizing me. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1170, which will designate the post office located at 1 League in Irvine, California, as the Tuskegee Airman Lieutenant Colonel Robert J. Friend…

The Biden administration's priorities--you know, countering China, yes, rebuilding alliances, yes, by funding climate change, yes, racial justice, yes, restoring the U.S. global standing around the world, yes--those are the Biden…

I think the Compact talks are not progressing very well.

The U.S. Government engages most effectively when it does so with a clear strategic policy implemented through a broad, coordinated interagency approach and guided by focused coordination from the National Security Council.

The Postal Service delivers 48 percent of the world's mail. It is an institution. It is a civic treasure.

in my opinion, was failing and continues to fail today.

we ought to be planning for this paid leave.

I could walk there in 13 days.