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She's a second-term Democratic congresswoman known for flipping the Michigan district Donald Trump carried in 2016 and 2020.

But Peter Meijer and Elissa Slotkin have more in common than their parties' adversarial postures in the U.S. House of Representatives might suggest:

Representative Elissa Slotkin is calling on the Michigan state legislature to disburse billions of dollars worth of federal funds to support vaccination efforts, food assistance, rental assistance, and to help safely reopen schools.

Slotkin discussed past accomplishments and unveiled her second-term agenda. The Holly Democrat's career has been spent in national security – she worked as a CIA intelligence analyst who served three tours in Iraq as a militia expert and served as a Pentagon official under both President Bush and President Obama.

U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) is bringing her years of experience evaluating intelligence on the growth of extremism and militias in Iraq to bear on a national conversation about confronting homegrown terror.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) warned that domestic divisions that enable and embolden domestic terrorism are "the single greatest threat to American security," in a press conference Thursday afternoon.

Elissa Slotkin (D-Holly) was recently made the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives' Intelligence & Counterterrorism Subcommittee within the House Committee on Homeland Security. She says a crucial part of her work with the subcommittee will be focusing on the rise of domestic terrorism.

Livingston County's representative in U.S. Congress will be heading up efforts at fighting domestic terrorism.

Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan's 8th Congressional District is set to chair the House Subcommittee on Terrorism and says despite her career as an intelligence officer even she is still working to understand the latest shift in national security.