Michelle Fischbach
Republican · MN-7 · U.S. House
MN-7 — U.S. House
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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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 264 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Willmar, MN · 320-403-6100
- Moorhead, MN · 218-422-2090
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
- Assets
- $418k – $1.1M
- Liabilities
- $340k – $815k
- Net worth
- −$397k – $780k
- Since 2019
- −$208k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 17 assets reported
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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Michelle Fischbach (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Congressmen Call on Walz, Ellison to ResignThe four Republican House members from Minnesota, Tom Emmer, Pete Stauber, Michelle Fischbach and Brad Finstad, have called on Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison to resign in the wake of the House Oversight Committee’s scathing report on fra…
Power Line · June 10, 2026
Here’s the Name of Every Republican Who Voted to Kill Epstein BillIn an 8–4 party-line vote Tuesday, Republicans on the House Rules Committee shot down a bid to put the Epstein Files Transparency Act—which would compel the Justice Department to release all unclassified records related to Jeffrey Epstein—to a floor vote. The…
The New Republic · September 9, 2025
Republicans just blocked a vote on the release of the Epstein files before it could happenThe results of a House Rules Committee hearing on Monday are sure to upset some of the GOP base.Rep. James McGovern (D-Mass.) put forward an amendment from fellow Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (Calif.) that would have continued the congressional saga of the infamou…
TheBlaze · July 15, 2025
WI & MN Republicans Send Letter Blaming Canada For Forest FiresThis sounds like something out of The Onion, but Republican House representatives Tom Tiffany and Glenn Grothman of Wisconsin and Brad Finstad, Michelle Fischbach, Pete Stauber and Tom Emmer of Minnesota all signed their names to it. "A handful of Republican …
Crooksandliars.com · July 11, 2025
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