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
- 7.7 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 1.7y
- 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.
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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
Abdul El-Sayed and Elissa Slotkin have their differences — and argue their common ground is more importantWarren, Mich. — If Democrat Abdul El-Sayed pulls off a win next month in Michigan’s U.S. Senate race, he and the state’s senior senator — Elissa Slotkin — will make a unique duo. The two Democrats will both have defeated the same Republican opponent — Mike Ro…
Biztoc.com · October 5, 2026- Senate punts bill to permanently ban Chinese cars until after midterm elections
Legislation to permanently ban the sale of Chinese vehicles in the United States stalled out on Wednesday as senators struggled to seal an agreement, virtually guaranteeing that the bill will have to wait until after the November elections. The bipartisan bil…
Freerepublic.com · October 2, 2026 
Slotkin: Trump and GOP 'Completely Misinterpreted Their Mandate'Senator Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers “completely misinterpreted their mandate.” Slotkin said, “Yeah, well, I think it’s part of sort of people being high on their own supply that…
Breitbart News · October 1, 2026
Swing-state Republican caught red-handed burying his old war cheerleadingMichigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers is now blaming the Iran war for skyrocketing grocery prices in his newest campaign ad, a jarring reversal for a hawkish former congressman who spent months publicly cheering on the very conflict he's now demanding Tru…
Raw Story · September 25, 2026
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