Michelle Fischbach

Republican · MN-7 · U.S. House

Bio

Michelle Louise Helene Fischbach is an American politician and attorney serving since 2021 as the U.S. representative from Minnesota's 7th congressional district. The district, which is heavily rural, is Minnesota's largest by area and includes most of the western part of the state. A Republican, Fischbach served from 2018 to 2019 as the 49th lieutenant governor of Minnesota. As of 2026, she is the last Republican to have held statewide office in Minnesota.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 264 of 437 by time served
Age: 60

District offices

Willmar, MN · 320-403-6100
Moorhead, MN · 218-422-2090

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$399k

2021

$74k

2022

$324k

2023

$149k

2024

$159k

2025

$192k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $418k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $340k – $815k
Net worth: −$397k – $780k
Since 2019: −$208k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 17 assets reported

American Fds 2035 Target Date Retirement Fd Cl A (AAFTX)$100k – $250k

Rental 14722$100k – $250k

Farmland Belgrade$50k – $100k

Rental 101$50k – $100k

Rental 216$50k – $100k

American Balanced Fund, Class A Shs (ABALX)$15k – $50k

ClearBridge Value Fund - Class C (LMVTX)$15k – $50k

Washington Mutual Invs Fd Cl A Shs (AWSHX)$15k – $50k

American Funds Capital World Growth & Income Fund Class A Shares (CWGIX)$1k – $15k

American Funds EuroPacific Growth A (AEPGX)$1k – $15k

ClearBridge Small Cap Fund Class C (LMASX)$1k – $15k

ClearBridge Value Fund - Class C (LMVTX)$1k – $15k

New Perspective Fund, Class A Shares (ANWPX)$1k – $15k

The Growth Fund of America Class A Shares (AGTHX)$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.75

Healthcare

R+0.72

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+0.84

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.85

Crime & Policing

R+0.88

Defense & Veterans

R+0.59

Economy & Labor

R+0.73

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.73

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.45

Education

R+0.95

Government & Democracy

R+0.86

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Michelle Fischbach's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

62%

27%

18%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

14%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Michelle Fischbach (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Fischbachsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
Rules and Organization of the House (Chair)
House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Oversight Trade

Most and least aligned members

Treating Fischbach's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.