Honorable Elise Stefanik
United States Representative, New York, Republican
Representative Stefanik, of New York’s Twenty-First District, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. She worked as the policy director for former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) in 2012. She sits on the following committees: Armed Services, Education and the Workforce, and Intelligence. The following is from the April 3, 2019, House floor debate on H.R. 1585, the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. In the United States, one in three women have experienced some form of physical violence by an intimate partner; one in seven women have been injured by an intimate partner; one in 10…
