Elissa Slotkin

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

40.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Elissa Slotkin is a Democratic Michigan senator and former CIA analyst and Pentagon official who won Debbie Stabenow's seat in 2024.

Elissa Blair Slotkin serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Michigan, a Democrat sworn in January 2025 after winning the seat vacated by retiring Senator Debbie Stabenow. A Holly, Michigan native and third-generation Michigander, Slotkin earned degrees from Cornell and Columbia and worked as a Middle East analyst at the CIA with three tours in Iraq, followed by senior national-security and Pentagon roles during the Bush and Obama administrations, culminating as acting assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs. She was first elected to the U.S. House in 2018 in a Republican-leaning mid-Michigan district and re-elected twice before running for Senate. In the Senate, she serves on the Armed Services, Agriculture, Homeland Security, and Veterans' Affairs committees, and she has focused on manufacturing, national security, Great Lakes protection, and centrist governance; she delivered the Democratic response to President Trump's 2025 address to Congress.