Pete Stauber

Republican · MN-8 · U.S. House

Bio

Peter Allen Stauber is an American politician, former minor-league hockey player, and retired law enforcement officer from Minnesota serving as the United States representative for Minnesota's 8th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, Stauber has represented the district since 2019.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 213 of 437 by time served
Age: 60

District offices

Brainerd, MN · 218-355-0862
Cambridge, MN
Chisholm, MN · 218-355-0726
Hermantown, MN · 218-481-6396

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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

−$1.8M

2020

−$1.4M

2021

$1.5M

2022

$1.2M

2023

$836k

2024

$1.0M

2025

$722k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $1.0M – $2.2M
Liabilities: $600k – $1.2M
Net worth: −$166k – $1.6M
Since 2019: +$2.6M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 13 assets reported

Minnesota Deferred Compensation Retirement Plan ⇒ T. Rowe Price Institutional Small-Cap St$250k – $500k

Minnesota Deferred Compensation Retirement Plan ⇒ Vanguard Dividend Growth Fund$250k – $500k

Minnesota Deferred Compensation Retirement Plan ⇒ Vanguard Institutional Index Fund Instit$250k – $500k

Stauber Properties ⇒ Commercial Building$100k – $250k

North Shore Bank Accounts$50k – $100k

Harbor View Homes LLC ⇒ Rental Property$50k – $100k

Red Wave LLC ⇒ Rental Property$50k – $100k

Charles Schwab Brokerage Account ⇒ Newell Brands Inc. (NWL)$15k – $50k

Minnesota State Retirement System Health Care Savings Plan ⇒ Vanguard Balanced Index$15k – $50k

Duluth Police Employee CU$1k – $15k

Stauber Brothers, Inc., 20% Interest$1k – $15k

Stauber Brothers Inc. ⇒ Note 1 from Sale$1k – $15k

Stauber Brothers Inc. ⇒ Note 2 from Sale$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+0.63

Healthcare

R+0.78

Immigration & Border

R+0.94

Guns

R+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.78

Crime & Policing

R+0.80

Defense & Veterans

R+0.73

Economy & Labor

R+0.66

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.34

Education

R+0.72

Government & Democracy

R+0.77

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

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

92%Closest

63%

30%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Pete Stauber (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 Staubersits 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 Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
Energy and Mineral Resources (Chair)Federal Lands
House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 66 members
Aviation Highways and Transit Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials
House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 24 members
Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains

Most and least aligned members

Treating Stauber'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.