She was a former student of Elizabeth Warren after all.. She was taught well.

As she lays out the case.

methinks he has a bit of a crush.

She is amazing

She was prepared, he wasn't.

magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law, where she studied under Elizabeth Warren.

And she brought the textbook that she authored to make her points when teaching lessons to Republicans!

Squad 2? Whatever, this is awesome. Women are doing their thing. The Democratic men are doing their thing too but this is just awesome to me. I wonder what I could have done if I had known it could have been done. Grew up groomed to be a wife and mommy. I loved being a mommy but I never knew I could do it all.

Go women! Go all! Form up, speak out and move this country into a kind and happily live-able nation for all people.

I remember sitting in my sixth-grade classroom (1962) when I learned the reason why women could never be president. I don't recall how my male teacher phrased it, but he conveyed that women were too 'moody' because we have periods.

I was around the same age when told I could not join the volunteer fire department when I got older. But I could become part of the Ladies' Auxiliary and bring refreshments to the fireMEN.

I was angry and rebellious and became a part of the changes to begin later that decade. It took so many baby steps to get where we are today and I am so proud of all of these women and especially the women of color, who have claimed their places and are fearlessly using their voices for further change.

Exactly.

Add up just the annual bonuses handed out on Wall Street and it is more than all the wages earned by minimum wage workers in the country per year.

That look on her face and the pointing finger is great. Jamie, you dumb shit.

She's quiet and does her homework, and I think that the people she's questioning don't always expect her sharp questions.

....altogether, men and women, most of which are doing the jobs they were elected to do, and doing it well.

Which ones aren't?

Very dependable.

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Thanks for sharing.

She’s an iron brain in a velvet hat.

I mentioned her to you the day I first focused on her. I knew she’d been on Lawrence but I hadn’t really listened.

But when I did... whoop loved me some level headed, brilliant Katie.

Very well said, and I'm guessing she wrote it herself.

She is a highlight of any round of questioning. She easily magnifies the incompetence and cold souls of the men who have the big $ positions.

At some point, these exposures have GOT to make a meaningful mark. Oh, for the love of sanity and humanity, they must.

They'd be a lot more effective and would not be as open to attack. Katie backs up her position with cold hard facts that cannot be easily attacked. AOC on the other hand is long on pie in the sky ideas but very short on actual facts. Advantage: Katie Porter. Hands Down.

Level-headedness...

No clothes for the growing child. No necessities like cleaning and laundry supplies.

No car insurance. No dentist.

No birthday presents. No Christmas presents.

The only way a single parent with a child could make that kind of income work would be to have a paying roommate to offset the housing cost, or to share a residence with someone.

It's pretty sad.

Multiple people, multiple incomes, multiple jobs to support one household. We have 4 adults and 3 incomes in our house. We've partitioned off separate "suites" and we have common areas. I am the only unemployed adult and I work constantly to keep the house running. Times have changed!

I'm looking forward to living by myself for the first time ever. Right now my son and his family are staying with me while they're building a house. They'll be moving out within the next couple of months. I considered getting a roommate or two, but I'm going to try to swing it on my own first.

My housing cost is substantially lower than Patricia's, thankfully. I noticed that she's driving a 2008 car, which means that she's a car repair away from complete ruin.

That's the thing with a lot of people these days. If one single thing happens, one major repair or other expense, they're ruined.

But, hey, according to 45, every is doing great.

and the poster was too new to know to put the 'sarcasm' tag on the post.

What a strong and inspirational lady. I hope more of the public start listening and learning.

I greatly appreciate her work!.......

Inflation....

Minimum wage should be closer to $30/hr in 2019.

Fight for $30, not slow path to $15!

This is just another ploy, $15 will show up and watch costs.

I already never eat fast food and pump my own gas.

Porter's one of 95 members of our Congressional Progressive Caucus and a strong progressive, but of course not a "squad" type.

538 and some other analysts are using the term "superprogressives" to differentiate the minority who represent the farther left, especially ones allied with anti-Democratic Party dissident groups, as all four members of the squad are, from the far, far larger population of progressive Democrats.

The big differences between the large majority of progressives and the superprogressives are usually less in policy goals than in attitude of the latter toward their Democratic colleagues, seeing them, as Bernie Sanders put it, too much like Tweedledum to the Republican Tweedledee. Also, before they'd ally and compromise with progressive Democrats to achieve their shared goals, superprog groups have at times been willing to not only fail to achieve all goals but even let the Republicans take power and destroy existing progressive government.

We're hoping the squad won't ever go that far, but some dissent is necessary since too much cooperation risks eliminating the whole reason for a dissident group's existence. And with it the small but very real power that national attention creates. Even though Nancy's correct that they only have 4 votes against 231 other Democrats, Ocasio especially is raising a great deal of money that makes her someone who can't be dismissed.

We saw the squad playing to their public when they recently took a stand against the majority by refusing to vote for funding to care for already badly neglected children imprisoned in Republican detention camps. This was even though existing funding was about to run out. All the majority progressives, including Porter, felt they could ethically meet the emergency needs of the children and also take a stand against kidnapping and abusing them, but the superprogs needed to publicly disagree.

In any case, the significant differences in basic orientation and political positioning show why Katie Porter could not be one of the squad. She and the rest will do her level best to work with them to achieve common goals, however.

She always comes armed with facts and she's not afraid to use them!

She's one tough cookie and her communication with her district is top notch. She's doing her job for the people - not herself.

She is a star. I'd much rather have people like her in Congress that are concerned with their job rather than a rep that is out for Twitter followers and publicity.

Their relentless, cheerful ambushes of these financial criminals from Wall Street and Trump's Cabinet of Cons are not only
irrevocably revealing but also darkly entertaining and often funny. Porter is flat out wonderful.

She devastates the Know-Nothing tRumplicans at every turn

I would have loved to have been one of her students.

...she is also very witty, and in everyone's favourite, dry way.

Go Girl!