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Rep. Brad Finstad

Representative for Minnesota’s 1st District

Finstad is the representative for Minnesota’s 1st congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Aug 12, 2022. Finstad is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 47 years old.

Photo of Rep. Brad Finstad [R-MN1]

Earmarks

Finstad proposed $46 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $5 million to Olmsted County for “Intersection at County State Aid Highway 44 and U.S. Highway 14 in Olmsted County”
  • $5 million to City of Fairmont for “Fairmont Wastewater treatment facility”
  • $5 million to City of Mankato for “Mankato Regional Wastewater Disinfection System Upgrade”

These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.

Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Finstad.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Finstad is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Finstad has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 29, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Brad Finstad sits on the following committees:

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Finstad sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Agriculture and Food (78%) Labor and Employment (22%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Finstad recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Finstad voted Yea

Finstad voted Yea

Passed 324/90 on Dec 1, 2022.

Finstad voted Yea

Passed 250/178 on Sep 22, 2022.

Finstad voted Yea

Passed 360/64 on Sep 22, 2022.

Missed Votes

From Aug 2022 to Sep 2023, Finstad missed 11 of 645 roll call votes, which is 1.7%. This is on par with the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: