At the risk of repeating myself until the end of time, I continue to be annoyed that Kamala Harris and her allies emphasize how she “stood up to the big banks.” In reality, nobody stood up to the big banks after the 2008 financial crisis. No executive saw a prison cell for the mountain of fraud committed; their companies only got bigger, nearly all of the penalties imposed on them… Read more »

House Republicans on Tuesday approved two bills rolling back Energy Department efficiency standards on refrigerators and dishwashers. Republicans called the Biden administration rules expensive and impractical, while Democrats defended them as a way for consumers to save money and reduce greenhouse gas pollution that contributes to climate change. A bill by Republican Rep. Mariannette… Read more »

Up to 12 years’ worth of presidents’ and vice presidents’ tax returns would be public information under new legislation from Rep. Katie Porter. Named the Presidential Ethics Reform Act, Porter, D-Irvine, alongside Republican Rep. James Comer of Kentucky, said the legislation is aimed at providing “full honesty and transparency from presidents and vice presidents” to “restore Americans’… Read more »

Back in March during an impeachment inquiry hearing by the House Oversight Committee, Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif. was frustrated by her Republican colleagues' continued push for the impeachment of President Joe Biden, despite the lack of evidence of wrongdoing. “This impeachment inquiry should end today. And where should we go from here? We should stop partisan attacks on each other and… Read more »

Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) will introduce a package of bills Tuesday intended to help Congress run more efficiently and curb influence-peddling by former members of Congress and government officials, her office told The Hill. The package of five bills includes legislation to modernize the government’s federal lobbying disclosure database and enact a blanket two-year ban on lobbying by… Read more »

As the summer travel season approaches, new parents may be navigating airports with their babies — and the complexities of keeping them fed. Despite federal guidelines for airport agents laying out how to treat nursing moms, stories about problem encounters with security sometimes go viral. In 2023, actress and singer Keke Palmer said she was at Houston airport when she faced threats to… Read more »

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the House on Wednesday would require presidents and vice presidents to publicly disclose tax returns before, during and after their time in the White House as Congress makes an election-year push to curb foreign influence in American politics.  The proposal, led by the unusual pairing of Republican Rep. James Comer and progressive Democratic Rep.… Read more »

In the latest sign of frustration over frequent censures and other punishment attempts in the House, California Democratic Rep. Katie Porter is proposing a rule change aimed at ending the partisan tit for tat. Porter on Friday introduced legislation that would change House rules around privileged resolutions, the procedural maneuver many members have used this Congress to force votes on… Read more »

A Democratic lawmaker thinks President Joe Biden's Education Department should be doing more to protect student-loan borrowers as they manage repayment. On Thursday, Rep. Katie Porter released a report — called Checks and Balances in the Federal Student Loan System — which claims the Education Department has a "conflict of interest" in the federal student-loan system due to its… Read more »

Days after Santa Clarita Rep. Mike Garcia, R-Calif., came under scrutiny for a stock trade he made in 2020 that has resulted in calls for an investigation with the Office of Congressional Ethics, a fellow Californian is attempting to end stock trading by members of Congress altogether. “This is truthfully a problem with the status quo in Washington,” said Rep. Katie Porter during a… Read more »