I will continue fighting to ensure small businesses like Bemidji Woolen Mills have the opportunity to grow, create jobs, and strengthen communities across our country.
Continue fighting to ensure small businesses have the opportunity to grow, create jobs, and strengthen communities.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Stauber's official site says he participated in the House Small Business Committee's 3rd Annual Small Business Showcase and invited Bemidji Woolen Mills, a Minnesota 8th District small business, to be featured.
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The House Committee on Small Business held a hearing on the role small businesses play in national security and said the committee must ensure American small businesses have a genuine chance to contribute.
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The House Small Business Committee memorandum says the Rural Development, Energy, and Supply Chains Subcommittee held a September 2, 2026 hearing titled “Fueling the Golden Age: Future Resource Needs and Small Business Opportunity,” with the purpose of examining resource and workforce needs to support manufacturing, technology, and industrial growth. It states that small businesses could enter new markets, expand operations, and support the industrial base, and that rural communities and small businesses need reliable power, water infrastructure, domestic supply chains, and a skilled workforce to benefit from investment.
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Congress.gov identifies H.R.818, the SPUR Act, as sponsored by Rep. Pete Stauber and says it passed the House on February 24, 2025 by a 384-25 vote, then was received in the Senate and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on February 25, 2025. The bill would amend the Small Business Act to add scorecard requirements for new small business entrants awarded federal prime contracts.
Assessments
The promise is broad and ongoing rather than a discrete measurable outcome. Stauber has taken same-term actions consistent with fighting for small-business growth, including sponsoring H.R.818, the SPUR Act, which passed the House but had not become law in the supplied evidence, and using his office to elevate a district small business through the House Small Business Committee showcase. Committee hearings further show activity in the issue area, but they are not enough to prove full delivery of growth, job creation, and community strengthening. This supports partial credit with an effort badge, not full delivery.
The promise is broad and ongoing rather than a specific measurable deliverable. Available evidence shows Stauber took at least some concrete pro-small-business action during the term, including using his office and committee role to highlight a Minnesota small business at the House Small Business Committee showcase. But the record here does not show a clear attributable policy result that ensured small businesses broadly grew, created jobs, or strengthened communities. Because there is candidate-specific effort but not strong evidence of a completed outcome at the promised scale, partial credit is the best fit.