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RepublicanPete Stauber
U.S. Representative · Minnesota
Minnesota's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Minnesota
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How they won their seat
Pete Stauber won the 2024 U.S. House election in Minnesota (District 8) with 58% of the vote (244,498 votes).
- Pete Stauber · Republican58%244,498
- Jen Schultz · Democratic-Farmer-Labor41.9%176,724
- 1 Other Candidate0.1%384
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Pete Stauber's record includes legislation related to fraud prevention, public safety, and resource management. Sponsored bills include the 'FRAUD Act' and the 'Minnesota Voter Integrity Act of 2026', alongside active participation in committees related to transportation, infrastructure, and natural resources. Focus areas (from the record): Fraud Prevention · Public Safety · Resource Management · Transportation · Small Business Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file, making it impossible to assess alignment with any stated goals. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the legislation that has been passed; Any unlogged activities or informal engagements that may influence his political actions. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Pete Stauber has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Activity in office
What Pete Stauber has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$136K8%
- Large individual (itemized)$716K40%
- PAC / committee$932K52%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Natural ResourcesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Small BusinessOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chair, House Committee on Natural Resources — Energy and Mineral ResourcesOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Natural Resources — Federal LandsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Small Business — Rural Development, Energy, and Supply ChainsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — AviationOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous MaterialsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure — Highways and TransitOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
91 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,469,532, spent $991,440, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9588: FRAUD Act ↗Jul 2, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8865: Protecting Taxpayers from Fraudulent Providers Act of 2026 ↗May 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7923: Stop Fraud by SOMALIA Act ↗Mar 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7882: To provide for the leasing of certain deposits of minerals located within the City of Carlsbad, New Mexico. ↗Mar 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7634: Judicial Loyalty Act of 2026 ↗Feb 20, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7320: Minnesota Voter Integrity Act of 2026 ↗Feb 2, 2026
- Sponsored HJRES 140: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN. ↗Jan 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6422: American Water Stewardship Act ↗Dec 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5337: Motor Carrier Safety Selection Standard Act of 2024 ↗Sep 11, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4615: Small Business Payment for Performance Act of 2025 ↗Jul 22, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4090: Critical Mineral Dominance Act ↗Jun 23, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3935: Reducing Permitting Uncertainty Act ↗Jun 11, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 91 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 503
- Nay
- 141
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 11
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Not voting
- S307Not voting
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
2 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NAY in the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure on Perry Amendment No. 221 to H.R. 8870, an amendment providing that a recipient of assistance under title 23, United States Code, may not use automated license plate readers for any purpose other than tolling. The amendment was not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.
SourcesCommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure, 119th Congress, Full Committee Record of Committee Votes 75 to 127 on H.R. 8870 (markup of May 21, 2026); Vote 104 on Perry Amendment No. 221, restricting automated license plate reader use by recipients of title 23 highway assistance. Not agreed to, 20 yeas to 44 nays.View position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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