Warren Protege is Rookie to Watch on House Financial Services (1)

The House Financial Services Committee rookie to watch could prove to be Rep. Katherine Porter (D-Calif.), an experienced bank watchdog and protégé of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)

Porter’s interest in consumer finance dates back to her time as a student in Warren’s Harvard Law School bankruptcy course. Like Warren, she also parlayed a career as a bankruptcy professor into a political post, eking out a narrow victory last November in historically Republican Orange County.

Porter also served as California’s compliance monitor for the 2012 national settlement on foreclosure abuses by major banks. Porter, along with headline-grabbing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), ...