Rep. Katie Porter, a U.S. Senate candidate in 2024, has had many viral moments in her congressional career.
She’s also questioned pharmaceutical industry executives on how they utilized funds.in 2020, Porter probed former Celgene CEO Mark Alles about the company tripling the price of one pill of Revlimid, a cancer drug, from 2005 to 2020.
“To recap here, the drug didn’t get any better, the cancer patients didn’t get any better, you just got better at making money,” she said.The Orange County congresswoman has used a truckload of rice and M&M’s candies to illustrate the spending habits of oil executives. “According to your annual report, you said you’re going to spend $16 to 17 billion on oil, gas and chemical with another $3 billion for marketing,” Porter said while she poured M&M’s from one mason jar to another. “How much is Shell spending on renewable energy?”
“An icon,” tweeted the global head of communications at Twitch, while another Twitter user said, “Not so subtle with the matching outfit, but it is nonetheless.”Porter drew virtual laughter when footage of her asking former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson in 2019 whether he knew what the housing term “REO” surfaced on the web.
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