Deb Fischer
Republican · NE · U.S. Senate
Bio
Debra Lynelle Fischer is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from Nebraska, a seat she has held since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Fischer served in the Nebraska Legislature from 2005 to 2013 and on the Valentine Rural High School Board of Education from 1990 to 2004. She is the third woman to represent Nebraska in the U.S. Senate and the first to be reelected.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.7 years
- First took office
- 2013 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 52 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 75
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Kearney, NE · 308-234-2361
- Omaha, NE · 402-391-3411
- Scottsbluff, NE · 308-630-2329
- Lincoln, NE · 402-441-4600
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
- $1.4M – $6.3M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $925k – $6.0M
- Since 2018
- +$1.7M
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
Deb Fischer'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
Deb Fischer (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Fischersits 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
- Joint Committee of Congress on the Librarycenter · 10 members
- Joint Committee on Printingcenter · 10 members
- Senate Select Committee on Ethicscenter · 6 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 28 membersCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesFinancial Services and General GovernmentDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesLegislative Branch (Chairman)
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Fischer'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
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Common Dreams · October 8, 2026
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The New Republic · September 24, 2026
Red state Senate candidate staff infiltrated and tried to dissolve rival political partyTwo paid staffers of Dan Osborn’s campaign joined an effort to dissolve a rival political party last year, according to records obtained by the Flatwater Free Press. The records reveal the lengths Osborn’s allies have gone to clear the field for him as he att…
Raw Story · August 24, 2026
The Montana Independent Who’s Dooming the DemocratsSeconds into our phone call, Brian Schweitzer, Montana’s folksy Democratic former governor, launched into an analogy about dirt roads. In Montana, he explained, you drive along a two-lane highway until you wind up on a gravel road, which takes you to a dirt r…
The New Republic · July 17, 2026
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