Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025

Sponsored by Rep. Pete Stauber (R-MN) · 2 active : 2 Republicans

Latest action: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 218.

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Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate

Passed House

House: passedJan 21, 2025
Senate: next
President: not yet

9 senators score as swing votes

Summary

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Lake Winnibigoshish Land Exchange Act of 2025

This bill directs the Forest Service to exchange specified land along the shoreline of Lake Winnibigoshish (commonly known as Lake Winnie) in the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota for specified land owned by Big Winnie Land and Timber, LLC (BWLT), if BWLT offers to make the exchange. The land acquired by the Forest Service must be added to and managed as part of Chippewa National Forest.

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The bill outlines requirements and conditions for the exchange. For example, the Forest Service must reserve an easement for road access to certain land in the forest. The bill also conditions the exchange on the satisfactory completion of a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment by BWLT before the nonfederal land is accepted in the exchange.

In addition, the exchange must be for equal value or the values must be equalized by a cash payment, subject to an exception.

Finally, the bill directs BWLT to pay all closing costs associated with the exchange.

Committees and subjects

Committees

House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReferred to
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry · SenateReported by · Markup by · Referred to

Subjects

Forests, forestry, trees
Geography and mapping
Land transfers
Minnesota

Senate · 100 House · 433

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

How the House breaks down

46Swing 70–100
205Middle 30–70
180Entrenched 0–30
2Insufficient data not ranked

Members fall into . 2 representatives don’t have enough data yet and are marked “insufficient data”. Non-voting delegates are not counted. The bill is not before the House right now; these scores show where members would stand.

Key players in the House

Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v2, directional

: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.

Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.

Similar past votes, House

Earlier behind swing-v3’s input

Similar votes count toward swing-v3 in the House: total similarity weight 14.0 (needs 5.0).

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PassedSame policy area×0.5
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PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 140 · Jan 21, 2026 · Roll call 398On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Public Land Order No. 7917 for Withdrawal of Federal Lands; Cook, Lake, and Saint Louis Counties, MN
PassedSame policy area×0.5

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H.J.Res. 130 · Nov 18, 2025 · Roll call 293On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to “Buffalo Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment”
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 105 · Sep 3, 2025 · Roll call 225On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to “North Dakota Field Office Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan”
PassedSame policy area×0.5
H.J.Res. 106 · Sep 3, 2025 · Roll call 224On PassageProviding for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to “Central Yukon Record of Decision and Approved Resource Management Plan”
PassedSame policy area×0.5

Cosponsors

2 active

Show all 2 cosponsors

Brad Finstad (R-MN-1)
Michelle Fischbach (R-MN-7)

How the swing score works

Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.

Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.

Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.

Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.

Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.

Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.