Elissa Slotkin

I ask that you take a thorough look at these WSE groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations as soon as possible.

We won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to the homeland today: White supremacy is terrorism.

As the President said just last night, we won't ignore what our intelligence agencies have determined to be the most lethal terrorist threat to our homeland today, White supremacy.

I just, you know, think we should put the same RMVE groups through that same process to see what happens.

Do you feel confident that the American people will stay safe and not be attacked again emanating out of Afghanistan?

We have learned in the past 20 years that our best attempts in these wars is through coalitions, through alliances.

I am deeply impacted by our experience on Iraq as someone who grew up as an Iraq specialist and who didn't agree with the decision to go to zero in Iraq.

I think for the most part most of us feel, at least I feel from my constituents, that they want to be out of Afghanistan.

I write to ask that you designate additional overseas violent WSE groups in the attached list that meet the necessary criteria as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs).

I was struck by the threat these white supremacist groups pose, the amount of contact they have with extremists in the U.S.

Such designations will help apply more stress to curtail these violent organizations' and their leaders' ability to operate their groups.

I think it's important and a healthy thing for us to look at this issue, particularly given the clearly high proportion of those who came inside the Capitol during the attack that had some sort of military background.

We respectfully request that Congress assist prosecutors and our law enforcement partners in this effort by dedicating funding and resources to strengthening technical assistance and training as we fight to end the spread of domestic…

I believe the hearings in this committee today represent an important step toward preserving our Government against those who want to use violence and intimidation to subjugate democratic government to their own preferences.

I am hopeful that the on-going FBI investigation into the events of January 6 means that Federal law enforcement has, albeit belatedly, realized that it must respond to this serious threat.

These groups are actively trying to stifle the first amendment rights of others, and to deprive us of our collective right to govern ourselves democratically.

We don't fight against flesh and blood.

I look forward to introducing legislation soon to ensure that DHS has the tools it needs from an intelligence analysis perspective to better understand the threats.

Never in my life did I think that the training I went through in war zones would be necessary here at home, let alone in the U.S. Capitol where I come to work every day.

Even just on Monday of this week, a 22-year-old man from my district affiliated with this group was charged with 2 felony counts related to modifying a semiautomatic weapon.

These plotters weren't affiliated with al-Qaeda or ISIS; they didn't hail from a war-torn region halfway around the world--they were Americans.

In my own district last year, Federal and State authorities managed to disrupt a plot by at least 14 men to kidnap our Governor, Gretchen Whitmer.

Domestic terrorism investigations have grown from around 1,000 in September, to about 1,400 at the end of 2020, to around 2,000 after the attack on the U.S. Capitol this past January.

The single greatest threat to our country right now is domestic terrorism.

There is nothing political about protecting Americans from violence in our communities.