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Ben Sasse

Former

Republican · NE · U.S. Senate

No longer in office — profile reflects their service in the 114th–119th Congresses (2015–present).

Reported net worth

2018
$3.4M
2019
$3.3M
2020
$906k
2021
$1.9M
Most recent filing (2021)
Assets
$1.3M – $3.1M
Liabilities
$250k – $500k
Net worth
$845k – $2.9M
Since 2018
−$1.6M

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

FiscalHealthImmig.GunsAbortionEnviron.CrimeDefenseEconomyForeignCivil R.Educ.GovtJudicial
Taxes & Fiscal
R+0.16
Healthcare
R+0.35
Immigration & Border
R+0.52
Guns
R+1.00
Abortion & Reproductive Rights
R+0.90
Environment & Energy
R+0.75
Crime & Policing
R+0.30
Defense & Veterans
R+0.59
Economy & Labor
R+0.85
Foreign Policy & Trade
R+0.48
Civil Rights & Social
R+0.28
Education
R+0.62
Government & Democracy
R+0.58
Judicial & Executive Nominations
R+0.81

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

Ben Sasse'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

Ben Sasse (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Socially conservativeSocially progressiveEconomic leftEconomic rightSasse

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Most and least aligned members

Treating Sasse'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

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Agnes Schaefer, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
2022-12-21 · Nomination Confirmed · Defense & Veterans, Judicial & Executive Nominations
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Agnes Schaefer, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army
2022-12-21 · Nomination Confirmed · Defense & Veterans, Judicial & Executive Nominations
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Arianna J. Freeman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
2022-09-29 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
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Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023
2022-09-29 · Bill Passed · Healthcare, Economy & Labor
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Lisa M. Gomez, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor
2022-09-29 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Economy & Labor
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Arianna J. Freeman, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit
2022-09-29 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
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Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023
2022-09-29 · Bill Passed · Healthcare, Economy & Labor
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Lisa M. Gomez, of New Jersey, to be an Assistant Secretary of Labor
2022-09-29 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations, Economy & Labor
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DISCLOSE Act of 2022
2022-09-22 · Cloture Motion Rejected · Government & Democracy
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Amanda Bennett, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media
2022-09-22 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
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Arati Prabhakar, of California, to be Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
2022-09-22 · Nomination Confirmed · Judicial & Executive Nominations
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DISCLOSE Act of 2022
2022-09-22 · Cloture Motion Rejected · Government & Democracy

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