Pete Ricketts
Republican · NE · U.S. Senate
Bio
John Peter Ricketts is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from Nebraska since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 40th governor of Nebraska from 2015 to 2023.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.6 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 91 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 62
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Omaha, NE · 402-550-8040
- Lincoln, NE · 402-476-1400
- Kearney, NE · 308-233-3677
- Scottsbluff, NE · 308-632-6032
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
- $125.8M – $411.0M
- Liabilities
- $340k – $715k
- Net worth
- $125.0M – $410.6M
- Since 2023
- +$110.1M
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 Ricketts'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 Ricketts (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Rickettssits 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.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairscenter · 24 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Ricketts'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
'Delusional': Elon Musk's latest vow bashed as pie in the sky by senators of both partiesWASHINGTON — U.S. senators from both parties are dismissing Elon Musk’s prediction that artificial intelligence will soon do away with the need for retirement accounts — a controversial view echoed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent this week.“I don't thin…
Raw Story · July 31, 2026
Independent Nebraska Senate Candidate Dan Osborn Calls SAVE America Act ‘Unconstitutional,’ a ‘Poll Tax’Nebraska U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE), attacked the SAVE America Act, using similar Jim Crow-era framing as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) who is supporting his independent campaign. The post Independe…
Breitbart News · July 30, 2026
'Stop him!' Senator sics security on reporter pleading for info on sickly Mitch McConnellA Republican lawmaker called for security and ran away after a TMZ reporter pleading for information about Sen. Mitch McConnell's (R-KY) condition. Charlie Cotton, TMZ DC co-managing editor, was walking with Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) on Capitol Hill when he p…
Raw Story · July 30, 2026
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