Elise Stefanik: Person of the Week

Claim to Fame: U.S. Representative for New York's 21st congressional district since 2015

Why She's the Person of the Week: for emerging as Adam Schiff's main antagonist during the opening of the impeachment hearing's this past week. The young Congresswoman has not only pulled Schiff's goat on congressional procedural rules time and time again, but also scored some key narrative points for the Republican side too.

In the questioning of former Ukraine Ambassador Yovanovitch, she asked the ex-ambassador whether it was accurate that “defensive lethal aid” that she had pushed for was provided to Ukraine not by the Obama administration, but by the Trump administration.

“That’s correct,” Yovanovitch responded.

Stefanik, who has also received sexist backlash from liberals for her performance, also got Yovanovitch to admit that the Obama administration prepped her for Hunter Biden:

But Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) hammered home the point that the Obama administration was concerned enough over Hunter Biden’s Ukraine job that staffers prepared Yovanovitch to answer them for the confirmation hearing. 

“The exact quote from your testimony, Ambassador, is, quote, ‘the way the question was phrased in this model Q&A was, what can you tell us about Hunter Biden’s, you know, being named to the board of Burisma?’” Stefanik said.  

“So for the millions of Americans watching, President Obama’s own State Department was so concerned about potential conflicts of interest from Hunter Biden’s role at Burisma that they raised it themselves while prepping this wonderful ambassador nominee before her confirmation.  

“And yet our Democratic colleagues and the chairman of this committee cry foul when we dare ask that same question the Obama administration was so concerned about. But we will continue asking it.”