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From: The Washington Post <[email protected]> 
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Subject:The Daily 202: Ifs personal for the lead sponsors of the Iran war powers resolutions 
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 17:21:51 +0000 
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It's personal for the lead sponsors of the Iran war 
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—Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) gives an interview at the Capitol. 
(Susan Walsh/AP) 
Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) gives an interview at the Capitol. (Susan Walsh/AP) 
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BY JAMES HOHMANN 
with Mariana Altaro 
THE BIG IDEA: Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) is a former CIA analyst who 
served three tours in Iraq as one of the American government's foremost 
experts on Iranian-backed Shiite militias before being appointed as an 
assistant secretary of defense with a focus on the Middle East. But that's not 
the only experience that motivated Slotkin to draft the resolution limiting President 
Trump's ability to take additional military action against Iran without congressional 
approval, which passed the House last night on a mostly party-line vote. 
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The freshman congresswoman's son-in-law is an active-duty Army officer 
stationed at the al-Asad air base in western Iraq, which the Iranians hit with 11 
ballistic missiles this week in retaliation for the drone strike that killed Quds Force 
commander Qasem Soleimani. Slotkin's husband also served 30 years in the Army, 
retiring as a colonel, and her stepdaughter followed in his footsteps. She was not 
long ago commissioned as an active-duty Army officer. 
"For me, this is not a theoretical exercise," Slotkin explained on Thursday 
evening. "If our loved ones are going to be sent to fight in any protracted war, the 
president owes the American public a conversation. ... Congress has long 
abdicated its responsibility as laid out in the Constitution to make the hard 
decisions we owe our troops." 
Such deeply personal…
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