The Congresswoman spoke with us about facing off with the CDC director over coronavirus testing.
By her own admission, Rep. Katie Porter is “pretty well-known” for not tipping her hand while she’s questioning witnesses on Capitol Hill. So thedirector of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,that she had, in a rare move, sent his office a week in advance. Her staff even re-sent the question the night before he testified on the Hill.
“We let the CDC know that we would be asking Dr. Redfield to make this commitment to the American people that testing will be available regardless of insurance,” Porter toldin an interview the day after Redfield's testimony. “And yet, he thought he could come to the American public and simply bob and weave and use words to obfuscate his duty to protect the public health, and I wasn’t having any of it. And the American people shouldn’t be standing for that, either.
The scene of Porter, whiteboard and dry erase marker in hand, pushing Redfield to commit to free coronavirus testing for all Americans , and grilling DHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response Robert Kadlec on whether he knew how much those tests cost , went viral—a video on Twitter of the moment has since amassed 26.8 million views. Porter’s methodical and targeted questioning of the men, peppered with phrases like “not good enough” and “reclaiming my time,” wasn’t a fluke.
“I think too often members of Congress wander into hearings and simply read off a piece of paper. We really try to dig in and fully engage the witnesses that come before us, whether we’re asking them to teach us or whether we’re holding them to account,” Porter said.I also did the legal research: the Administration has the authority to make testing free for every American TODAY.
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