Elissa Slotkin
Democrat · MI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Elissa Blair Slotkin is an American politician and former Department of Defense official serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 1.6y
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 77 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 50
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- Lansing, MI · 517-993-0510
- Flint, MI
- Detroit, MI
- Traverse City, MI
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $366k – $765k
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $116k – $665k
- Since 2019
- −$925k
Largest holdings in the 2023 filing · 5 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Elissa Slotkin's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Elissa Slotkin (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Slotkin?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Slotkinsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Slotkin's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Republican's move to snatch Dem votes crashes into brick wall: reportMAGA-loyalist Michigan Senate candidate Mike Rogers is trying to court Jewish Democrats to defect to his campaign — but so far, his messaging has not landed, local Jewish leaders are saying.Rogers, who lost his 2024 Senate race by fewer than 20,000 votes, is …
Raw Story · August 21, 2026
Michigan Leaders Raise Alarm Over “Christian Crusader March”A group of religious extremists are planning a “Christian Crusader March” in Dearborn, Michigan, Tuesday evening, and Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib, whose district includes Dearborn, called out the lack of response to the demonstration, noting the …
The New Republic · August 18, 2026
Senator presses Hegseth, Caine for commitment to keep US military out of the midterm electionsDemocratic Sen. Elissa Slotkin has asked Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to confirm that he won’t send troops to polling places during the midterm elections
Abcnews.com · August 18, 2026
Yes, El-Sayed May Lose. But Democrats Shouldn’t Try to Make It Happen.The reaction so far among establishment Democrats to Abdul El-Sayed’s narrow win in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary has been surprisingly encouraging. Almost instantly after the race was called Wednesday morning, Governor Gretchen Whitmer endorsed El-S…
The New Republic · August 7, 2026
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