Rep. Katie Porter

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Porter.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Porter is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Porter has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Nov 20, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Katie Porter sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Financial Services
  Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets subcommittees
• House Committee on Oversight and Reform
  Economic and Consumer Policy subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Porter sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (19%) Health (19%) Education (16%) Taxation (13%) Finance and Financial Sector (13%) Housing and Community Development (6%) Commerce (6%) Labor and Employment (6%)

Recent Bills

Some of Porter’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.R. 8639: Mental Health Justice Act of 2020
• H.R. 8569: Disaster Learning and Life Saving Act of 2020
• H.R. 8362: To require senior officials to report payments received from the Federal Government and ...
• H.R. 8330: No Surprise Bills for New Moms Act
• H.R. 7885: RPM Access Act
• H.R. 7846: Support Working Families Act of 2020
• H.R. 7294: COVID-19 Perkins Loan Relief Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Nov 2020, Porter missed 22 of 928 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is on par with the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Office of the Clerk, House of Representatives for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills