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Porter said Thursday that the bank teller she called "Patricia" during the hearing was actually a hypothetical person representing several stories of which her office had heard.
During the hearing, Porter described a real
job listing posted on the job-finding platform Monster.com for a JPMorgan Chase position in Irvine, Califonia, paying $16.50 an hour, saying, "now this bank teller, her name is Patricia. She has one child who's 6 years old."
When asked by CNN's Brooke Baldwin whether the bank teller she described would want to communicate with Dimon, Porter replied, "Patricia is a representative of a number of constituents that we'd heard from."
"So there is no Patricia out there," Porter said, adding, "but in the other way, there are thousands and thousands, and tens of thousands of Patricias out there."
The California Democrat said that she checked apartment listings, the US Department of Agriculture's
food cost plan, and a cost of living calculator to estimate the expenses, adding, "I am a single mom in Irvine, I know what it takes to make ends meet there."
Porter added that her office has received feedback from her own district and nationwide saying that the figures were "too conservative."
"I have people calling my office asking if they knew where she rented from, so that they wanted to get a one bedroom apartment for $1,600," she said.