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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
- MediumBacks 2 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 2 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315, S. 1467.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.446 (party median +0.558; rank 15 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 88); LCV 3 (avg 3).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
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 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 4431Improving Capital Allocation for Newcomers Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 55
| Middle |
| H.R. 4437SMART Act of 2025 |