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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Background
Democrat Amy Klobuchar, first elected in 2006, is Minnesota’s senior senator. She graduated from Yale, and went on to get a law degree from the University of
Chicago. Returning home, she worked as a lawyer and a lobbyist. In 1998, Klobuchar ran successfully for Hennepin County prosecuting attorney, and went on to
serve two terms. Minneapolis’ Hennepin County is the center of a media market that includes most of Minnesota’s population, which provided Klobuchar an
excellent springboard in her run for the Senate in 2006. Klobuchar consistently led in polls and won 58%-38%, the biggest Minnesota Senate victory since 1978.
In the Senate, Klobuchar has been a fairly reliable Democratic vote, with some centrist tendencies, and has taken on several prominent assignments. She took a
lead role in 2009 in the successful effort to confirm Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. One of her top issues is consumer protection. Klobuchar got several
provisions to toughen airline safety into the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization that became law in February 2012, and she has advocated strong
country-of-origin labeling for imported food. Klobuchar also sponsored a bill to prosecute online stalkers and to require schools to have anti-bullying policies.
Official Contact Info State Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Hart State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/7/2006 • Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
• Commerce, Science & Transportation
Room Number: 302 Status: Senior Senator Party: Democrat • Rules and Administration
Phone Number: (202) 224-3244 Serving with: Tina Smith (D) Birth date: 5/25/1960 • Judiciary
Facebook: @amyklobuchar Cook PVI: D+1 Education: JD, University of Chicago Law
School, 1985; BA, Political Science, Yale
Instagram: @amyklobuchar Election Results
University, 1982
Twitter: @AmyKlobuchar 2018 General
Family: Spouse: John Bessler, 1 child
Amy Klobuchar (D) 60%
Jim Newberger (R) 31%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019
Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN)
Background
In December 2017, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton nominated Lieutenant Governor Tina Smith to replace Senator Al Franken after he announced his intention
to resign following allegations of sexual harassment. Tina Smith is a member of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party, an affiliate of the Democratic
Party, and served as Minnesota’s lieutenant governor from January 2015 through the end of 2017. As lieutenant governor, she focused on several issues
including rural broadband internet access, statewide job creation and early learning. Prior to being elected lieutenant governor, Tina served as the governor's
chief of staff, and before that was the chief of staff for Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak. Smith also managed gubernatorial and U.S. Senate campaigns before
taking a position as the V.P of external affairs at Planned Parenthood of Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. Smith was sworn into office in early January
2018 and was assigned to the following committees: Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry; Energy and Natural Resources; Health, Education, Labor and Pensions;
and Indian Affairs. She has sponsored bills on rural electrification, reservation restoration and agricultural energy programs, as well as legislation addressing
mental health and the opioid crisis.
Official Contact Info State Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Hart State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/5/2018 • Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry
• Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs
Room Number: 309 Status: Junior Senator Party: Democrat • Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
Phone Number: (202) 224-5641 Serving with: Amy Klobuchar (D) Birth date: 3/4/1958 • Indian Affairs
Facebook: @USSenTinaSmith Cook PVI: D+1 Education: MBA, Business Administration,
Dartmouth College, 1982-1984; Bachelors,
Instagram: Election Results
Political Science, Stanford University, 1976-
Twitter: @SenTinaSmith 2018 General 1980
Tina Smith (D) 53% Family: Spouse: Archie Smith, 2 children
Karin Housley (R) 42%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019
Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN-1)
Background
Hagedorn was born in Blue Earth, and raised on a grain-and-hog farm. After college, he worked as a legislative assistant to Rep. Arlan Stangeland. He then
worked as the director for legislative and public affairs for the Financial Management Service and later as a congressional-affairs officer for the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing. One of Hagedorn’s campaign points was a biometric US visa and passport system to track temporary visitors and deport those who
overstay. He is also a proponent of seeking energy independence by pursuing all possible sources of production.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Cannon State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/6/2018 • Agriculture
• Small Business
Room Number: 325 District: 1st Party: Republican
Phone Number: (202) 225-2472 South: Rochester Birth date: 8/4/1962
Facebook: TBD Cook PVI: R+5 Education: BA, Government and Politics,
George Mason University
Instagram: TBD Election Results
Family: Unknown
Twitter: TBD 2018 General
Jim Hagedorn (R) 50%
Dan Feehan (D) 50%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019
Rep. Angie Craig (D-MN-2)
Background
Craig built a career as a newspaper reporter and was the head of global human resources for Saint Jude Medical. Craig was endorsed by former President
Obama, Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club, and several others. She campaigned on a platform of investing in education, health care, job training, and
infrastructure. She supports a path to citizenship for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival recipients, affordable college, and the Affordable Care Act. Craig lives
in Eagan with her wife, Cheryl, and four sons.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Longworth State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/6/2018 • Agriculture
• Transportation and Infrastructure
Room Number: 1523 District: 2nd Party: Democrat • Small Business
Phone Number: (202) 225-2271 Twin Cities' South Suburbs Birth date: 2/14/1972
Facebook: TBD Cook PVI: R+2 Education: Graduated, BA in Journalism,
University of Memphis, 1994
Instagram: TBD Election Results
Family: Spouse: Cheryl; 4 Children: Josh,
Twitter: TBD 2018 General
Jonas, Jacob, Isaac
Angie Craig (D) 53%
Jason Lewis (R) 47%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019
Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN-3)
Background
The heir to the Phillips Distilling Company liquor fortune, as well as the step-grandson of Abigail Van Buren (better known as “Dear Abby”), Phillips is a relative
newcomer to politics. Before entering politics, Phillips also served in a number of philanthropic roles throughout the Minneapolis area as the chair of the Phillips
family foundations and several other charitable enterprises. Phillips also was chair of Talenti Gelato until the company was sold to Unilever. Notably, Phillips
most recent business ventures were two coffee shops that pledged to offer a $15 minimum wage for their employees. Phillips campaigned against incumbent
Erik Paulsen’s support for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, though Phillips declined to back a “Medicare for-all” proposal. Phillips rejected corporate PAC
donations and also pledged not to self-fund his campaign.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Longworth State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/6/2018 • Financial Services
• Foreign Affairs
Room Number: 1305 District: 3rd Party: Democrat • Ethics
Phone Number: (202) 225-2871 Twin Cities' West Suburbs Birth date: 1/20/1969
Facebook: TBD Cook PVI: D+1 Education: MBA, University of Minnesota -
Carlson School of Management, 1998-2000;
Instagram: TBD Election Results
BA, Urban Studies, Brown University, 1988-
Twitter: TBD 2018 General 1991
Dean Phillips (D) 56% Family: Divorced; 2 Children: Daniela, Pia
Erik Paulsen (R) 44%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019
Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN-4)
Background
Democrat Betty McCollum, first elected in 2000, is an ally of Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, whom she calls a mentor. McCollum on occasion has the
same effect on Republicans as the polarizing Pelosi, most prominently with her push to end the military’s sponsorship of NASCAR as a cost-cutting move.
McCollum grew up in North St. Paul and graduated from the College of St. Catherine. She was a substitute social studies teacher while working as a retail sales
manager at Sears and raising two children. After her daughter suffered a fractured skull on a slide in a city park, McCollum worked with the city of North St. Paul
to make repairs. She ran for the North St. Paul City Council and lost. In 1986, she ran again and was elected. McCollum served until 1992, when she was elected
to the state House of Representatives after defeating incumbents in both the primary and general elections. In February 2000, Democratic Rep. Bruce Vento
announced that he had malignant mesothelioma and would not seek reelection. In a three way race to replace him, McCollum won unexpectedly easily. In the
House, McCollum has a consistently liberal voting record. With Pelosi’s help, she has secured some plum positions, including a role as a senior whip and in
2006, an Appropriations Committee seat. McCollum has been reelected easily.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Rayburn State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/7/2000 • Appropriations
Room Number: 2256 District: 4th Party: Democrat
Phone Number: (202) 225-6631 St. Paul and Suburbs Birth date: 7/12/1954
Facebook: @repbettymccollum Cook PVI: D+14 Education: BA, College of Saint Catherine,
1987; AA, Inver Hill Community College, 1980
Instagram: @repbettymccollum Election Results
Family: Divorced, 2 children
Twitter: @BettyMcCollum04 2018 General
Betty McCollum (D) 66%
Greg Ryan (R) 30%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN-5)
Background
Born in Somalia, Omar and her family fled the civil war when she was 8, moving to a refugee camp in Kenya for four years before eventually settling down in
Minneapolis in 1997. After college, Omar worked as a community nutrition educator and later became a Humphrey Policy fellow, serving as a senior policy aide
for a Minneapolis city-council member. In 2016, she became the first Somali-American, Muslim legislator in the US, when she was elected to the Minnesota
House of Representatives. Omar is a proponent of funding pre-kindergarten programs nationwide, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and
automatically registering every 18-year old to vote.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Longworth State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/6/2018 • Budget
• Education and Labor
Room Number: 1517 District: 5th Party: Democrat • Foreign Affairs
Phone Number: (202) 225-4755 Minneapolis Birth date: 10/4/1981
Facebook: TBD Cook PVI: D+26 Education: BA, Political Science, North Dakota
State University; BS, International Studies,
Instagram: TBD Election Results
North Dakota State University; Policy
Twitter: TBD 2018 General Fellowship, University Of Minnesota's
Humphrey School of Public Affairs
Ilhan Omar (D) 78%
Family: Spouse: Ahmed; 3 Children
Jennifer Zielinski (R) 22%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN-6)
Background
Conservative talk-show host Tom Emmer, a former state representative, scored a solid victory in 2014 to take over the seat vacated by Republican Michele
Bachmann. His win marked a political comeback, coming four years after he lost a gubernatorial bid to Democrat Mark Dayton by a hair. Like tea-party icon
Bachmann, Emmer is an ardent conservative. His great-grandfather founded a lumber business in Minneapolis in 1907 that his family still runs. Emmer practiced
law and first served on the city councils of Independence and Delano before being elected to the state Assembly in 2004. His GOP colleagues eventually voted
him deputy majority leader despite his lack of seniority. During his 2010 race against Dayton, Emmer staked out one of the most conservative platforms this blue-
leaning state had seen in decades. But the national Republican wave that year was not strong enough to lift him over Dayton. Emmer subsequently launched a
conservative AM radio talk show in the Twin Cities. As soon as Bachmann announced her retirement in 2013, Emmer was the first Republican to declare a run,
and he promptly gave up his radio slot to raise money and rack up endorsements. By the time of the primary, he had outraised his leading opponent, Rhonda
Sivarajah, by a 20-to-1 ratio. He went on to coast to his primary victory with 72 percent of the vote.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Cannon State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/4/2014 • Financial Services
Room Number: 315 District: 6th Party: Republican
Phone Number: (202) 225-2331 Twin Cities Suburbs; St. Cloud Birth date: 3/3/1961
Facebook: @reptomemmer Cook PVI: R+12 Education: JD, William Mitchell College of
Law, 1984-1988; BA, History/Political Science,
Instagram: @reptomemmer Election Results
University of Alaska at Fairbanks, 1979-1984;
Twitter: @reptomemmer 2018 General Attended, Boston College
Tom Emmer (R) 61% Family: Spouse: Jacqueline (Jacquie) Samuel,
7 children
Ian Todd (D) 39%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019Rep. Collin Peterson (D-MN-7)
Background
Collin Peterson, first elected in 1990, is one of the few conservatives left in an increasingly liberal House Democratic caucus. He is the top Democrat on the
Agriculture Committee, where he works well with like-minded lawmakers representing rural regions. Peterson grew up on a farm in Baker, just across the Red
River of the North from Fargo, N.D. In 1976, he was elected to the state Senate. In office, Peterson has been known as a free spirit, wearing cowboy boots and
playing guitar in a rock band called the Second Amendments (the other members are Republicans) that covers Del Shannon and the Eagles. He is extremely
candid with Capitol Hill reporters, sometimes revealing more about the thinking of Republicans than GOP lawmakers themselves. A staunch fiscal conservative
and founding member of the Blue Dog Coalition, Peterson has shown a bit more loyalty to his party since it lost the majority in 2011. But he has opposed many of
President Obama’s major initiatives. He voted against the New Year’s Day 2013 budget deal aimed at averting the so-called “fiscal cliff” and joined Republicans
in 2012 in voting to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for allegedly withholding information relating to the botched “Fast and Furious”
gun-tracing operation.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Rayburn State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/6/1990 • Agriculture (Chair)
• Veterans' Affairs
Room Number: 2204 District: 7th Party: Democrat
Phone Number: (202) 225-2165 West: Moorhead Birth date: 6/29/1944
Facebook: @Petersonforcongress Cook PVI: R+12 Education: BA, Business
Administration/Accounting, Minnesota State
Instagram: Election Results
University at Moorhead, 1962-1966
Twitter: @collinpeterson 2018 General
Family: Single, 3 children
Collin Peterson (D) 52%
Dave Hughes (R) 48%
Slide updated: April 10, 2019Rep. Peter Stauber (R-MN-8)
Background
Stauber was born in 1966 in Duluth and played hockey from a young age. After suiting up for the Lake Superior State University team, he played for minor-league
affiliates of the Detroit Red Wings before retiring in 1993 and returning to Minnesota. He co-owns the Duluth Hockey Company with his five brothers. He worked
in law enforcement for over two decades, serving as the president of the Law Enforcement Labor Services Union, Local 363 and as a commander with the Duluth
Police Department. He served on the Hermantown City Council for eight years before becoming a St. Louis County commissioner in 2012, defeating the
incumbent. Stauber is a supporter of the 2017 GOP tax-reform bill and Trump’s actions on tariffs, and he is a strong opponent of abortion.
Official Contact Info District Profile Biography Committees
Capitol Hill Office Building: Cannon State: Minnesota First Elected: 11/6/2018 • Small Business
• Transportation and Infrastructure
Room Number: 126 District: 8th Party: Republican
Phone Number: (202) 225-6211 Northeast: Duluth Birth date: 5/10/1966
Facebook: TBD Cook PVI: R+4 Education: BS, Criminal Justice, Lake Superior
State University
Instagram: TBD Election Results
Family: Spouse: Jodi; 4 Children: Levi, Luke,
Twitter: TBD 2018 General
Isaac, Addilynn
Peter Stauber (R) 51%
Joe Radinovich (D) 45%
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