candidate_id: katie-porter

candidate_name: Katie Porter

claim_type: recommendation

event_title: CalMatters Governor Q&A Transcripts

party: Democratic

text: Porter says California should revisit and adjust the thresholds in its progressive tax code as income inequality increases and top earners accumulate more wealth.

theme_id: taxes

theme_label: Taxes


claim_type: assertion

text: Porter says lowering housing costs is the single biggest step California can take to improve affordability because housing is most families’ largest expense.

theme_id: housing

theme_label: Housing


event_title: Porter abolish ICE priority page

text: Reject federal overreach, keep California communities as sanctuaries for immigrants, and work with federal partners to abolish ICE.

theme_id: immigration-civil-rights

theme_label: Immigration Civil Rights


event_title: Porter campaign priorities

text: Make public university tuition free for UC and CSU students.

theme_id: higher-education

theme_label: Higher Education


text: Provide free child care for all, with worker/business support and employer incentives.

theme_id: child-care

theme_label: Child Care


text: Eliminate California income taxes for people earning less than $100,000.

theme_id: taxes-affordability

theme_label: Taxes Affordability


claim_type: prediction

event_title: Porter environment and clean energy priority page

text: Porter claims California can reach 100% clean energy output year-round and that doing so would reduce energy costs for Californians.

theme_id: energy

theme_label: Energy


text: Porter says that as governor she would accelerate California’s transition to clean energy by investing in renewables such as wind, solar, and geothermal and by expanding the electric grid.


text: Accelerate clean energy, expand the grid, and position California for 100 percent clean energy output every day while lowering costs.

theme_id: climate-energy

theme_label: Climate Energy


event_title: Porter health-care protection priority page

text: Fight federal health-care cuts, protect and expand California health care, improve the health-care workforce, and defend abortion access.

theme_id: health-care

theme_label: Health Care


event_title: Porter homelessness priority page

text: Reduce homelessness through emergency rental assistance, rapid rehousing, interim housing, prevention tools, and lower permanent-supportive-housing costs.

theme_id: homelessness-renter-prevention

theme_label: Homelessness Renter Prevention


event_title: Porter housing costs priority page

text: Speed housing production by nearly two years through enforcement against local delays, faster certificates of occupancy, construction innovation, and state land and infrastructure investment.


event_title: Porter income inequality priority page

text: Pair eliminating state income tax below $100,000 with a progressive corporate tax on the most profitable corporations.


event_title: Porter single-payer health-care priority page

text: Lay the groundwork for CalCare or Medicare for All by building toward single-payer health care in California.


event_title: CBS News California / San Francisco Examiner gubernatorial debate

text: Porter says building housing at the pace of competitor states would make housing in California about 10% to 20% cheaper.


text: Porter proposes free childcare as a policy to boost economic growth and reduce costs for families with young children.

theme_id: education

theme_label: Education


event_title: Ezra Klein California Governor Housing Forum

text: Porter supports pending legislation to create a uniform statewide housing permit and to constrain late-added fees by requiring jurisdictions to specify fees within a set time window.


text: Porter says speeding up housing permitting and construction timelines could lower market-rate housing prices by roughly 10% to 20%.


event_title: NBC4 / Telemundo 52 statewide California gubernatorial debate

text: Porter says freezing insurance rates would drive remaining insurers out of California and make it harder to build housing and green energy projects, so the state should pursue more insurer competition instead.


text: Porter argues that homelessness in California is primarily caused by high housing costs and that prevention is more cost-effective than allowing people to become homeless.

theme_id: homelessness

theme_label: Homelessness


claim_type: pushback

event_title: CNN California governor primary debate

text: Porter argues that a proposed billionaire tax is flawed because it is a one-time levy and earmarks most of the revenue for a single purpose despite broader ongoing budget needs.


text: Porter says she is the only candidate in the race who does not accept corporate campaign contributions.

theme_id: governance

theme_label: Governance


event_title: CBS California / Pomona College Governor's Debate

text: Porter argues that California’s slower housing production—driven in part by permitting delays—adds about 10% to 20% to housing costs and that building faster would reduce costs.


text: Porter says the state should reform permitting and spur innovation in homebuilding to bring down housing costs.


event_title: CBS News California Governor's Race Candidate Guide

text: Porter argues that expanding in-state renewable energy production is a key way to make energy cheaper and more affordable over the long term.


text: Porter says California should maintain existing refinery capacity in the near term while investing in renewable energy as part of a transition to a greener energy future.


event_title: Nexstar / NewsNation / The Hill California gubernatorial primary debate

text: Porter says California should move away from relying on a gas tax and instead fund transportation-related needs through progressive general-fund taxation so lower-income drivers are not disproportionately burdened.


claim_type: observation

text: Porter contends that adoption of electric vehicles is being held back more by affordability than by concerns about driving range.


event_title: KQED Political Breakdown: Katie Porter on Her Plan to Cut Taxes and Take on Corporations

text: Porter argues that bankruptcy functions as a legal safety net that helps people recover when financial risks like taking on student debt or trying to buy a home do not work out.


text: Introduced bipartisan Presidential Ethics Reform Act with House Oversight chair: A concrete action aligned with anti-corruption and government-accountability positioning.

theme_id: ethics-anti-corruption

theme_label: Ethics Anti Corruption


text: Served on House Oversight and used congressional office for consumer and accountability work: Her official House profile and Congress.gov record support a legislative/oversight action surface, but individual policy outcomes need bill-by-bill or hearing-by-hearing matching.

theme_id: consumer-protection-oversight

theme_label: Consumer Protection Oversight


event_title: Voted YEA on American Relief Act, 2025 (118-hr-10545)

text: Voted YEA on American Relief Act, 2025: Would provide continuing FY2025 appropriations for federal agencies and supplemental appropriations for disaster relief.

theme_id: economics-and-public-finance

theme_label: Economics and Public Finance


event_title: Voted NAY on American Relief Act (118-hr-10515)

text: Voted NAY on American Relief Act


event_title: Voted NAY on JUDGES Act (118-s-4199)

text: Voted NAY on JUDGES Act: Would create 63 new permanent U.S. district court judgeships over a 10-year period and 3 temporary U.S. district court judgeships in 2025.

theme_id: law

theme_label: Law


event_title: Voted NAY on WILD Act (118-hr-5009)

text: Voted NAY on WILD Act: Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 This bill authorizes for FY2025 and sets forth policies for Department of Defense (DOD) programs and activities, military construction, the national security programs of the Department of Energy (DOE), the Maritime Administration.

theme_id: armed-forces-and-national-security

theme_label: Armed Forces and National Security


event_title: Voted NAY on Liberty in Laundry Act (118-hr-7673)

text: Voted NAY on Liberty in Laundry Act: Would places limits on the authority of the Department of Energy (DOE) to prescribe or enforce energy conservation standards for clothes washers.


event_title: Voted YEA on Improving Federal Building Security Act (118-s-3613)

text: Voted YEA on Improving Federal Building Security Act: Would require Facility Security Committees to respond to security recommendations issued by the Federal Protective Service (FPS) regarding facility security. A Facility Security Committee is a committee that (1) consists of representatives of all federal tenants in a specific nonmilitary facility, the security organization for the facility.

theme_id: government-operations-and-politics

theme_label: Government Operations and Politics


event_title: Voted YEA on SHIELD Against CCP Act (118-hr-9668)

text: Voted YEA on SHIELD Against CCP Act: Would establish within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) a working group to assess and improve efforts to address security threats posed to the United States by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

theme_id: immigration

theme_label: Immigration


event_title: Voted YEA on Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act (118-s-4367)

text: Voted YEA on Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act: Thomas R. Carper Water Resources Development Act of 2024 DIVISION A—WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT Water Resources Development Act of 2024 TITLE I—GENERAL PROVISIONS Subtitle A—General Matters (Sec. 1101) This section directs the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) to ensure that potential nonfederal interests are aware of the roles, responsibilities.

theme_id: water-resources-development

theme_label: Water Resources Development


event_title: Voted NAY on CLEAN Act (118-hr-1449)

text: Voted NAY on CLEAN Act: Would require the Department of the Interior to increase the frequency of lease sales under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 and establishes deadlines for consideration of geothermal drilling permits.


event_title: Voted YEA on CLEAN Act (118-hr-1449)

text: Voted YEA on CLEAN Act: Would require the Department of the Interior to increase the frequency of lease sales under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 and establishes deadlines for consideration of geothermal drilling permits.


event_title: Voted YEA on On Agreeing to the Amendment (118-hr-1449)

text: Voted YEA on On Agreeing to the Amendment: Would require the Department of the Interior to increase the frequency of lease sales under the Geothermal Steam Act of 1970 and establishes deadlines for consideration of geothermal drilling permits.


event_title: Voted YEA on Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act (118-hr-8371)

text: Voted YEA on Senator Elizabeth Dole 21st Century Veterans Healthcare and Benefits Improvement Act: Would address various programs, benefits, and services provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA).


event_title: Voted YEA on Vote by Mail Tracking Act (118-hr-5658)

text: Voted YEA on Vote by Mail Tracking Act: Would require mail-in ballots to (1) contain a U.S. Postal Service (USPS) barcode that enables tracking of each individual ballot, (2) satisfy USPS requirements for ballot envelope design and machinable letters.


event_title: Voted NAY on Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act (118-hr-5342)

text: Voted NAY on Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act: Would phases in a new funding formula for determining benefit amounts under the windfall elimination provision (WEP).

theme_id: social-welfare

theme_label: Social Welfare


event_title: Voted NAY on Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act (118-hr-9495)

text: Voted NAY on Stop Terror-Financing and Tax Penalties on American Hostages Act: Would postpones certain tax filing deadlines for U.S. nationals who are unlawfully or wrongfully detained abroad or held hostage abroad and their spouses.

theme_id: taxation

theme_label: Taxation


event_title: Voted YEA on Social Security Fairness Act (118-hr-82)

text: Voted YEA on Social Security Fairness Act: Would repeal provisions that reduce Social Security benefits for individuals who receive other benefits, such as a pension from a state or local government.


event_title: Voted NAY on Ensuring accountability for key officials in the Biden-Harris administration responsible for (118-hres-1469)

text: Voted NAY on Ensuring accountability for key officials in the Biden-Harris administration responsible for: Would states that the House of Representatives condemns President Joseph Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris.

theme_id: international-affairs

theme_label: International Affairs


event_title: Voted NAY on Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act (118-hr-8205)

text: Voted NAY on Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act: Would makes the posting of cash bail, criminal bail bonds.

theme_id: crime-and-law-enforcement

theme_label: Crime and Law Enforcement


event_title: Voted YEA on Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act (118-hr-8205)

text: Voted YEA on Keeping Violent Offenders Off Our Streets Act: Would makes the posting of cash bail, criminal bail bonds.


event_title: Voted YEA on Autism CARES Act (118-hr-7213)

text: Voted YEA on Autism CARES Act: Would reauthorize several programs that support autism education, research.

theme_id: health

theme_label: Health