Pete Stauber
Republican · MN-8 · U.S. House
MN-8 — U.S. House
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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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.7 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 213 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Brainerd, MN · 218-355-0862
- Cambridge, MN
- Chisholm, MN · 218-355-0726
- Hermantown, MN · 218-481-6396
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
- $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
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
Pete Stauber'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
Pete Stauber (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 · 141 members
Committees
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructurecenter · 67 members
- House Committee on Small Businesscenter · 26 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Stauber will run for top Republican on House Natural Resources, while Westerman ponders next moveRep. Pete Stauber of Minnesota is making a run for the top Republican spot on the House Natural Resources Committee in the next Congress — teeing up a potential battle with the current chair, Bruce Westerman, who isn’t ruling out asking for a waiver to serve …
Biztoc.com · September 3, 2026
Every House Member Who’s Still Not at Work After a Five-Week VacationThe House of Representatives has returned from its five-week summer vacation, but for more than three dozen members that extended break apparently wasn’t enough.According to the House clerk, 46 lawmakers failed to make it back to Washington in time for the fi…
The New Republic · September 1, 2026
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The New Republic · August 19, 2026
List of Celebrities Donating to Luke Gulbranson's Minnesota CampaignFormer Summer House star Luke Gulbranson is attempting to oust Minnesota Representative Pete Stauber, a Republican, and while his donations are significantly lower than those of the Republicans, he has a few familiar names donating to him, according to record…
Biztoc.com · July 20, 2026
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