Katie Porter

For a person like me, $381 billion, $400 billion, it is all just a lot of zeroes that is not being paid.

On average, every year, we fail to collect $406 billion?

Who benefits from failing to collect taxes that are owed? Only the people that owe them that are not paying them.

Is it correct that the Federal Government fails to collect taxes that it is owed to the tune of about $400 billion a year?

Should there a national breach law?

It is really meaningful to have a president who is sympathetic, who speaks to the pain of the moment, doesn’t try to deflect or pretend that we aren’t going through this, but instead acknowledges it.

How are we spending taxpayer dollars wisely here?

I think of that as a single parent penalty, and I don’t think it should exist.

I'm just surprised there hasn't been a whistleblower from the Merit Systems Protection Board calling out the waste, fraud, and abuse that we're allowing to go on there without appointed board members.

we've worked together in the past on my Accountability for Acting Officials Act that closes loopholes

How is this good government?

I hope that business leaders will step up here and their economists, their researchers, that people will all step up and make the Republicans understand that there is a real, real risk of going too small here and it is much graver than the…

The fact that we had people on opposite sides come into the White House and the outcome was a productive meeting is something that has been way too long missing in this country.

I think that`s the direction this is headed. But I want to be clear, I have a strong preference here for the Republicans to stand up and do what is right. I want a Republican Party that we can work with, that we can trust, that we can…

I guarantee you our economy will not be fully recovered by June.

I think every elected official has a duty to tell the truth, to stand up for truth, and to call out things that are false or harmful for the American people. And whether that`s, you know, a fellow member of the Democratic Party doing that…

Stay home. It is the single most important thing you can do right now.

In California, it's never been more dangerous from COVID-19 than it is today.

Mr. DeJoy made a bad choice. Whatever changes he made, he should unmake them.

We're in serious damage control mode.

In May 2007, Purdue Pharma and three of its top executives pleaded guilty to fraudulently marketing OxyContin.

Mitch McConnell wants to let AT&T off the hook for having to do anything to try and keep those workers safe.

Republicans are blocking COVID relief to do giveaways to large corporations.

If Mitch McConnell's rule were to go forward, then companies would not have to provide PPE. They wouldn't have to follow state public health guidelines.

This is simply about giving his corporate donors what they want.