Democrat Elissa Slotkin is challenging incumbent Rebublican Congressman Michael Bishop for the Eighth District seat in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Elissa Slotkin served 14 years in national security, including three tours in Iraq as a CIA intelligence analyst.
Issues include affordable healthcare, roads and water infrasctructure, and campaign finance reform. Solutions include allowing Medicare to negotiate for lower drug costs, allowing a Medicare buy in that would give younger families more choices and increase competition in healthcare while preserving Medicare benefits for current and future generations of seniors, and protecting those with pre-existing conditions from being price-gouged, Slotkin said.
She would advocate for a significant, meaningful, and generous federal infrastructure package that has an immediate impact in our state and in our district.
She has helped lead a group of more than 100 candidates who have called for campaign finance reform to be the very first bill that comes to the House floor in the new Congress.
In Congress, she would fight for an update to the Authorization of Military Force, and help bring back the appropriate checks and balances to a system that was designed to ensure that the American people have a voice when it comes to sending our citizens to war.
“First and foremost, Congress has a solemn responsibility to ensure that when our young men and women are ordered into harm’s way, Congress has done its duty to authorize an act of war,” Slotkin said. “This one is quite personal to me since I’m married to a 30-year Army veteran, and have a step-daughter who’s a brand new lieutenant in the Army. Our troops are fighting today under an authorization for the use of military force that dates to 2001 because Congress has backed away from its oversight responsibilities.”
We also need to make stronger investments in capabilities to confront 21st century threats such as cyber attacks, she said.
Michael Bishop did not respond to questions.