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U.S. Senator · Nebraska
Pete Ricketts
RepublicanState R+10119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score47#42 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Pete Ricketts’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office139 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 25 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 25 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315, S. 383, S. 555, S. 868, S. 1027 and 20 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 315 AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 383 JOBS Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 555 Korean American Divided Families National Registry Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 868 MEGOBARI Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1027 Military Spouse Hiring Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored:
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- November 5, 2024 – January 3, 2027
- Senate class
- Class 2
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 3.7 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsMajority · 9th in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection
- Subcommittee on Economic Policy
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public WorksMajority · 6th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Ricketts← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.446 is 0.11 to the left of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress94Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 651–700 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 3004Upper Price River Watershed Project Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 48
| Middle |
| S. 3095 |