Elise Stefanik

Elise Stefanik

Elise Marie Stefanik (/stəˈfɑːnɪk/; born July 2, 1984) is an American businesswoman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015. As chair of the House Republican Conference since 2021, she is the third-ranking House Republican. Stefanik was 30 when first elected in the 2014 U.S. House of Representatives elections in New York (District 21), the youngest woman elected to Congress at the time.

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• So, yes President Biden is building pipelines for Putin.
  • tweet June 21, 2021

• The American people deserve to know the truth, that Nancy Pelosi bears responsibility as the Speaker of the House for the tragedy that occurred on January 6th
  And it was only after Republicans started asking these questions that she refused to seat them.
  • 27 July 2021

• Yesterday’s unprecedented leak is an attempt to severely damage the Supreme Court. This clearly coordinated campaign to intimidate and obstruct the Justices of the United States Supreme Court, and its independence in our political system, from upholding the Constitution must immediately be investigated by the court.

House Republicans are committed to upholding the sanctity of life, and we will continue to fight to be a voice for the truly voiceless. There is nothing more special, extraordinary, and worth fighting for than the miracle of life

• Collins, Manchin and other lawmakers react to the Supreme Court draft opinion (Updated: May 3, 2022 03:11 PM EDT)

• One down. Two to go [...] This is only the very beginning of addressing the pervasive rot of antisemitism that has destroyed the most ‘prestigious’ higher education institutions in America. This forced resignation of the president of Penn is the bare minimum of what is required.
  • Statement (9 December 2023), as cited in "Penn’s Leadership Resigns Amid Controversies Over Antisemitism", The New York Times (9 December 2023)
  • Liz Magill, President of the University of Pennsylvania, had resigned her position. Ms Magill, along with the Presidents of Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), had participated in a hearing of the House Education Committee (December 5, 2023). See "How Harvard, Penn, MIT leaders answered — or skirted — questions on antisemitism", The Washington Post (December 6, 2023)

Quotes about

• there’s a tremendous irony in the fact that Elise Stefanik is supposedly so upset about people saying Palestine will be free from the river to the sea, because Elise Stefanik supports the existence of one country which denies Palestinians basic rights between the river and the sea. And as for the idea that she has some great concern for Jews, as you said, she’s actually trafficked in the same “great replacement” theory that is what motivated the Pittsburgh shooter because of this insane idea that Jews are bringing in Black and Brown immigrants into the United States to replace white people. Elise Stefanik doesn’t actually care about Jews. What she believes in is ethnonationalism. She believes in a White Christian state in the United States. And she’s sympathetic to forces in Israel that believe in a Jewish supremacist state, because fundamentally she’s hostile to the basic principle that people should be treated equally under the law irrespective of race, religion or ethnicity. She’s hostile to it in Israel-Palestine. She’s hostile to it in the United States. That’s what motivates her.
  • Peter Beinart Interview with Democracy Now (2023)