Pete Ricketts — GovTally

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Agriculture 4 Banking & Finance 2 Defense & Military 2 Economy & Taxes 2 Foreign Policy & Trade 2 Environment & Energy 1 Labor & Employment 1 Social Services & Welfare 1 Technology & Privacy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 2), NE current Nebraska	Republican	Nov 5, 2024	Jan 3, 2027	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), NE Nebraska	Republican	Jan 23, 2023	Nov 5, 2024	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Nebraska United States	Republican	Jan 23, 2023	Nov 5, 2024	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Economic Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — National Security and International Trade and Finance unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works — Transportation and Infrastructure unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Europe and Regional Security Cooperation unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Budget unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.445, social dim. 0.491. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Casey Mulligan to be Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Andrea Lucas, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Matthew Kozma, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Andrea Lucas to be a Member of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Cheryl Mason, of North Carolina, to be Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Gadyaces Serralta, of Florida, to be Director of the United States Marshals Service	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Tyler Clarkson, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Cheryl Mason to be Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Jul 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Matthew Kozma to be Under Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis, Department of Homeland Security	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Gadyaces Serralta to be Director of the United States Marshals Service	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 34 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Israel of certain…	Nay	Jul 30, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 41 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed export of certain defense articles to Israel.	Nay	Jul 30, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Tyler Clarkson to be General Counsel of the Department of Agriculture	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Joseph Kent, of Washington, to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National…	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jospeh Kent to be Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Office of the Director of National…	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Thomas Gaiser, of Ohio, to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Thomas Gaiser to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Jul 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Emil Bove III, of Pennsylvania, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Samuel Brown, of Nevada, to be Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Services	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Samuel Brown to be Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Memorial Affairs	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Susan Monarez, of Wisconsin, to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Susan Monarez to be Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: William Kimmitt, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: William Kimmitt to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Earl Matthews, of Virginia, to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense	Yea	Jul 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,014 recorded contributions totalling $6,276,886. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 948 of 1014 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Corporate PAC	242	$2,342,348	37%
Big donor	657	$2,268,425	36%
Party	35	$1,390,169	22%
Super PAC	14	$45,378	1%
Unclassified	66	$230,566	4%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$134,918	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Apr 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$134,221	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Jun 22, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$118,404	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Mar 3, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$109,986	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Sep 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$107,771	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Sep 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$100,850	NRSC VICTORY	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Sep 19, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$85,008	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Mar 27, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$83,345	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	May 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$79,748	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Dec 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$78,200	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Aug 31, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$66,583	NRSC VICTORY	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Nov 6, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$62,759	PETE RICKETTS VICTORY FUND	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Aug 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$59,526	NRSC VICTORY	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Apr 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$58,018	NRSC VICTORY	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Oct 21, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$57,598	NRSC VICTORY	PETE RICKETTS FOR SENATE	Party	Apr 29, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.