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Elise Stefanik

Elise Stefanik (2 July 1984-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NY 21) from 3 January 2015, succeeding Bill Owens.

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Elise Stefanik was born in Albany, New York in 1984, and she was a staff member on President George W. Bush's Domestic Policy Council. She worked as a Republican Party staffer while also working for her family's wholesale plywood business, and she was elected to the US House of Representatives in 2014. She voted against Donald Trump's 2017 tax cuts, opposed the travel ban on citizens of Muslim-majority countries, argued for compassion towards those who supported the right to choose, and supported net neutrality, marking herself as a moderate.

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