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reshmen Congresswoman 
Haley Stevens is defending 
her seat against Republican 
Eric Esshaki in Michigan’
s tra-
ditionally red 11th District, 
which includes Birmingham, 
Bloomfield Hills, 
Troy, Commerce 
Township, Novi 
and Farmington. 
Stevens grew up in 
the district and her 
family still lives in 
Birmingham. 
The JN recently interviewed 
Rep. Stevens via Zoom. Her 
responses are edited for length 
and clarity.

ISRAEL
My focus in Congress has been 

on advanced manufacturing and 
new technological development, 
and I believe the U.S./Israel part-
nership is a real opportunity for 
us to strengthen entrepreneurial 
efforts, such as the maturity 
of new technologies, particu-
larly in the automotive sector. 
The Michigan Israel Business 
Accelerator is a great organi-
zation, and I want to do more 
with it. It certainly has led to the 
development of new companies, 
spinoffs and start-ups.

ANTISEMITISM
I oppose the BDS [boycott, 
divestment, sanctions] movement 
as a real attack on American 
Jewry. Particularly we see this on 
campuses, and it’
s a deeply biased 

campaign against Israel’
s exis-
tence and it’
s leading to extraor-
dinary tensions … We need to 
have badges and designations 
for hate groups … Neo-Nazism 
and antisemitism have no place 
in our country, and I will always 
seek to dismantle it. We’
ve got 
to take some serious action in 
Congress to combat it.

COVID-19
The pandemic is still among us. 
We’
re not back to a full recov-
ery on our economy. Small 
businesses have sustained a lot 
of economic pain. I’
m all for 
another stimulus for our working 
families and not leaving people 
and communities in the lurch 
around some of the other assis-
tance measures they need. And 
we can do this in a smart, fiscally 
responsible way, and it gives 
people a return on their taxpayer 
dollars, too.

CLIMATE CHANGE
We must embrace a whole 
clean technology portfolio. I 
think Michigan is going to be 
a leading place for electric and 
autonomous vehicles. Michigan 
has also been a great example of 
the approach of having a robust, 
advanced manufacturing sector 
that has embraced clean technol-
ogies, such as solar panels on our 
roofs and LEED certification in 
our buildings while also main-
taining the stewardship of our 
environment. We are the Great 
Lakes State, and the care and 
health of our fresh water is criti-
cal and something that 50 years 
ago we stood up for when we 
passed legislation to protect our 
natural environment. My goal 
is to bring all the stakeholders 
to the table: those in the private 
sector, utilities and auto compa-
nies. 

More at www.thejewishnews.com.

Rep. Haley Stevens
Freshman congresswoman talks with 
the JN about her priorities if reelected.

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Rep. Haley 
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