Rep. Katie Porter is standing up to corporate America — one whiteboard at a time
NPRRep. Katie Porter is standing up to corporate America — one whiteboard at a time NPR's Juana Summers talks with Rep. Katie Porter about her new memoir, I Swear: Politics is Messier Than My Minivan, about what it's like to work on Capitol Hill as a single mom with three young kids. SUMMERS: In the book, Porter talks about what it's like to work on Capitol Hill as a mom with three young kids who's also single and has a cross-country commute from Orange County to Washington and how, when she was looking for support from fellow members of Congress, the least helpful voices were those of older women. So I very much want the story to be honest about what was hard and what was painful but also to see that we came out on the other side of it, that those were conversations that my kids and I ultimately probably needed to have and that I think it means something in Washington when we fight for better-trained, better-equipped resources and law enforcement to deal with intimate partner or domestic violence; that we have people who have stood there and had a conversation where a police officer said, don't call us again or we'll take away your children. And I think that for people who say, well, oh, you know, it's performative, don't you want the American people to see you, to hear you and, most importantly, to hear the answer from that witness, to hear that Big Pharma CEO admit that they have no answer for why they are paid hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation for a drug that isn't getting any better, for pharmaceuticals that aren't saving more lives?
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