Pete Ricketts

Republican · NE · U.S. Senate

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Nebraska — U.S. Senate

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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.

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Record of service

In office: 3.7 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 91 of 100 by time served
Age: 62
Senate class: 2 · junior senator

District offices

Omaha, NE · 402-550-8040
Lincoln, NE · 402-476-1400
Kearney, NE · 308-233-3677
Scottsbluff, NE · 308-632-6032

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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

2023

$157.7M

2024

$180.5M

2025

$267.8M

Most recent filing (2025)

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.69

Healthcare

R+1.00

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

—

Environment & Energy

R+0.96

Crime & Policing

R+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.83

Economy & Labor

R+0.60

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.59

Civil Rights & Social

R+1.00

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.45

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.87

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.

89%Closest

61%

27%

17%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

13%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

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

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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Caucuses & committees

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Committees

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.