Elissa Slotkin

I am really hoping the Senate takes it up but I would urge your help in making sure that in this day and age some of these things that are very bipartisan actually get through.

I co-sponsored the Stopping Bad Robocalls Act. It was a bill that was introduced in this committee and I co-sponsored it.

Americans lost about $10.5 billion due to robocall scams last year.

Michigan last year alone we had 1.2 billion robocalls made to us.

If you are like me and like most Michiganders, you hate these calls and whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, and Independent, I think they drive everybody equally crazy.

We took all of the revenue from Russia Today and their associated entities and are funding research and partnerships with organizations like the Atlantic Council, like the DisinfoLab in Brussels, to research better how we can prevent…

I wanted to switch gears for just a second and talk about the influence and the spread of foreign-based information, foreign-based political ads in particular, in our political process.

It's truly a marker in history that we're having this discussion here in 2019 in the 116th Congress commenting a very tough topic.

Tell me what more we can be doing, particularly in rural areas, right.

So I am from Michigan, and in my district, we have this fantastic cybersecurity program at one of our local high schools.

There's a reason why we're doing this as a hearing today rather than a meeting, and that's because we are showcasing to the world from the halls of Congress your incredible achievement and accomplishments for humanity that really just put…

How in good conscious can we increase their capacity for detention when they have proven incapable of properly overseeing their existing facilities.

I have seen ICE detention facilities, and I can assure you there is nothing civil about them.

I can assure you that will not fly today.

I think we have to give you guys a ton of credit for the fact that we haven't had another large-scale attack in the United States.

In these times of political partisanship and division, no matter where you stand politically, the disastrous state of our roads is something everyone in Michigan can agree on.

Our residents in the Eighth Congressional District are counting on you all, and I really appreciate the opportunity to speak.

I will urge everyone on the committee to please do more than what we did last Congress, which was to explain how we are going to pay for it.

Thank you for having those of us who couldn't make it out of the committee come and testify in front of you.

I must convey my frustration and disappointment that the Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security have stonewalled the efforts of this committee.

That military service members would have to work without pay is unconscionable.

The threats have evolved and we have reshaped how the Government approaches immigration and travel.

As a New Yorker you understand the significance that this comes with, for me in particular, you know, we have had three terrorist attacks just in the last several years.

We want to support the programs that work, the ones that are based on real data and real threats.

I sincerely want to know whether this is worth it. Whether it is worth it to discriminate against millions of people around the world simply on the basis of their faith?