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U.S. House District 6
2026 Michigan U.S. House — District 6 — General Election · November 3, 2026
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Office: 6th District Representative in Congress 2 Year Term (1) Position
Candidate: Smiley, Heather
Party / incumbent: Republican Party
Filed on: 04/20/2026
Filing method: Petitions
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FEC committee ID: C00879718
FEC committee name: COMMITTEE TO ELECT HEATHER SMILEY
Published email: [email protected]
Published email: [email protected]
Published website: https://smileyforcongress.com/
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FEC committee ID: C00879718
FEC committee name: COMMITTEE TO ELECT HEATHER SMILEY
Published email: [email protected]
Published email: [email protected]
Published website: https://smileyforcongress.com/
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I am a Christian mother of two children who has been married for 30 years. I attended public schools, and was the first in my family to attend college, earning both a bachelor and master degree from Central Michigan University. My father is a legal immigrant that served in the USAF who retired as both an engineer and medical first responder. My mother is a retired school bus driver.I recently retired from Ford (UAW & salary) with over 32 years of service. My roles included, product development, strategy & planning, business reengineering & transformation, customer service, and analytics. I worked on location in Europe and in partnerships throughout the globe. I can apply my real-world experiences involving multi-million-dollar projects, leveraging data and analytics to make strategic, data-driven decisions to improve our government.
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I am a Christian mother of two children who has been married for 30 years. I attended public schools, and was the first in my family to attend college, earning both a bachelor and master degree from Central Michigan University. My father is a legal immigrant that served in the USAF who retired as both an engineer and medical first responder. My mother is a retired school bus driver.I recently retired from Ford (UAW & salary) with over 32 years of service. My roles included, product development, strategy & planning, business reengineering & transformation, customer service, and analytics. I worked on location in Europe and in partnerships throughout the globe. I can apply my real-world experiences involving multi-million-dollar projects, leveraging data and analytics to make strategic, data-driven decisions to improve our government.
I recently retired from Ford (UAW & salary) with over 32 years of service. My roles included, product development, strategy & planning, business reengineering & transformation, customer service, and analytics. I worked on location in Europe and in partnerships throughout the globe. I can apply my real-world experiences involving multi-million-dollar projects, leveraging data and analytics to make strategic, data-driven decisions to improve our government.
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I recently retired from Ford (UAW & salary) with over 32 years of service. My roles included, product development, strategy & planning, business reengineering & transformation, customer service, and analytics. I worked on location in Europe and in partnerships throughout the globe. I can apply my real-world experiences involving multi-million-dollar projects, leveraging data and analytics to make strategic, data-driven decisions to improve our government.
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Pursue and enforce laws when constitutional rights are violated and interpret rights in line with the framers’ intent.
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Constitutional Adherence Pursue and enforce laws where violations occur, and uphold our God-given rights as the framers intended
Pursue and enforce laws where violations occur, and uphold our God-given rights as the framers intended
Support law enforcement, equal enforcement of the law, and natural-law principles.
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Enable and support law enforcement to effectively perform their duties, enforce equal protection, and uphold natural law
Strengthen ballot security and limit voting to eligible U.S. citizens.
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Ensure and enforce ballot security, and secure voting only for legal U.S. citizens
Reduce wasteful federal spending, pay down debt, balance the budget, and increase fiscal-plan transparency.
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Fiscal Responsibility Eliminate excessive & wasteful spending, pay off the debt and balance the budget, and ensure plan transparency
Eliminate excessive & wasteful spending, pay off the debt and balance the budget, and ensure plan transparency
Maintain international trade relationships while requiring reciprocal or bidirectional fairness.
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Reciprocal Trade Protect and Increase global trade relations and ensure nothing less than bi-directional fairness
Favor market demand over government intervention as the primary driver of business growth.
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Restore energy independence, unleash the free-market, and protect/improve the infrastructure.
Restore border security, change immigration practices, and address people who entered the country unlawfully.
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Restore border security, improve immigration policies & practices, and address the issues associated with those who have entered the country illegally
Strengthen domestic manufacturing and food supply chains, prioritize cybersecurity, and restrict foreign ownership of U.S. land.
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Strengthen and protect domestic manufacturing & food chain, prioritize cyber security, and restrict foreign ownership of land
Rebuild U.S. military capabilities with emphasis on lethality and protection from foreign and domestic threats.
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Restore/build arsenal and focus on lethality & protection from foreign and domestic enemies
Enforce unbiased access to education, employment, and housing and protect the civil rights of Americans.
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Civil Rights Practice & enforce unbiased education, employment, and housing opportunities, and protect the rights of all Americans.
Practice & enforce unbiased education, employment, and housing opportunities, and protect the rights of all Americans.
Emphasize school safety and an academic curriculum focused on American excellence and global competitiveness.
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Ensure safety and focus curriculum solely on academics, American excellence, and global competitiveness.
Restore energy independence, rely more heavily on market forces, and protect or improve energy infrastructure.
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Energy Restore energy independence, unleash the free-market, and protect/improve the infrastructure.
Restore energy independence, unleash the free-market, and protect/improve the infrastructure.
Protect and restore air, water, land, wildlife, habitats, and human environmental conditions.
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Protect and restore air/water/land, wildlife and their habitats, and the human condition
Increase government transparency and accountability while imposing term limits and blind-trust investment requirements on elected officials.
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Government Transparency, terms limits for all elected officials, blind-trust investments, personal/legal accountability.
Transparency, terms limits for all elected officials, blind-trust investments, personal/legal accountability.
Protect life across the lifespan, increase domestic drug production, and stop illegal drug importation and production.
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Protect life (womb, special needs, elderly), in-source drug production, and stop illegal drug importation/production.
End omnibus spending bills, require adequate time for review and debate before votes, and ensure legislative plans align with bill text and law.
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Eliminate omnibus spending, allow sufficient time for review/dialogue prior to vote, ensure plan alignment with bills/laws.
Protect the free exercise of religion from government overreach and judicial bias.
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Religion Allow the free practice of religion without fear, government overreach, and judicial bias.
Allow the free practice of religion without fear, government overreach, and judicial bias.
Support law enforcement in performing its duties and enforcing the rule of law.
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Enable and support law enforcement to effectively perform their duties, and enforce the rule of law.
Protect the right to armed self-defense and shield firearms manufacturers from personal responsibility for misuse of their products.
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Self Defense Protect the right to arm & defend yourself/others, and shield manufacturers from personal responsibility.
Protect the right to arm & defend yourself/others, and shield manufacturers from personal responsibility.
Protect impartial and unrestricted creation and distribution of lawful speech across media platforms.
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Speech Protect and ensure original, impartial & unrestricted creation and distribution amongst all media platforms.
Protect and ensure original, impartial & unrestricted creation and distribution amongst all media platforms.
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Candidate ID: H4MI06154
Name: SMILEY, HEATHER
Office: House
State: MI
District: MI06
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