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url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/2020/03/katie-porters-whiteboard/'
title: 'Katie Porter’s Whiteboard'
author:
  name: 'eD! Thomas'
  url: 'https://edequalsaweso.me/author/edequalsawesome/'
date: '2020-03-13T11:47:19-04:00'
modified: '2025-01-31T20:24:16-05:00'
type: post
categories:
  - Linkin' Log
  - News
  - Politics
tags:
  - CDC
  - Coronavirus
  - Finish Him
  - Katie Porter
  - Today's Video Awesome
published: true
---

# Katie Porter’s Whiteboard

> When you woke up this morning and put on your bland suit in preparation for your hearing, I bet you looked yourself in the mirror and thought: Today’s the day. Katie Porter’s not going to get me.Well, I’m Representative Katie Porter’s whiteboard, and I’ve got a message scrawled upon my glistening façade: We’re about to kick your ass.

The exchange between Rep. Katie Porter of California and an official from the CDC during a hearing yesterday was awesome. [This monologue from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency is an equally-awesome companion piece.](https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-representative-katie-porters-whiteboard-and-my-girl-and-i-are-about-to-kick-your-ass)

If you haven’t seen Rep. Porter mopping the floor with the officials from the CDC yet, you should 100% watch the video below before you read the piece on McSweeney’s. It’s worth your time, I promise.

> I did the math: a full battery of coronavirus testing costs at minimum $1,331.I also did the legal research: the Administration has the authority to make testing free for every American TODAY.I secured a commitment from a high-level Trump official that they’d actually do it. [pic.twitter.com/RmolCtmNbG](https://t.co/RmolCtmNbG)— Rep. Katie Porter (@RepKatiePorter) [March 12, 2020](https://twitter.com/RepKatiePorter/status/1238147835859779584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)