Pete Ricketts
Republican · NE · 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.
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
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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
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Recent notable votes
Latest news
Republican's Chances of Losing to Dan Osborn in Nebraska Senate RaceRepublican Senator Pete Ricketts and independent Dan Osborn are tied in a new internal poll of the Nebraska Senate race released by the Osborn campaign on Wednesday. President Donald Trump easily won Nebraska in each of his three presidential bids, and the st…
Biztoc.com · August 26, 2026
Trump's beef gambit backfires inside his own party: 'This isn't the way'President Donald Trump is facing rare backlash from members of his own party over his plan to temporarily lift tariffs on hundreds of thousands of tons of foreign beef to lower grocery prices.Under the president’s plan, the United States will allow up to 300,…
Raw Story · August 25, 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
'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
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