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
Gallego Amdt. No. 5813	Nay	Jun 5, 2026	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Peters Amdt. No. 5763	Nay	Jun 5, 2026	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Hirono Amdt. No. 5506	Nay	Jun 5, 2026	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2 — Secure America Act	Nay	Jun 5, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Durbin Amdt. No. 5806	Nay	Jun 5, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Budgetary Discipline Re: Lee Amdt. No. 5804	Yea	Jun 5, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Booker Amdt. No. 5803	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Baldwin Amdt. No. 5485	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Sanders Amdt. No. 5451	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2 — Secure America Act	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Kim Amdt. No. 5545	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Hickenlooper Amdt. No. 5501	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Graham Amdt. No. 5779	Yea	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Warner Amdt. No. 5556	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Hassan Amdt. No. 5535	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2 — Secure America Act	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Reed Amdt. No. 5514	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Merkley Amdt. No. 5512	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Tillis Amdt. No. 5452	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2 — Secure America Act	Nay	Jun 4, 2026	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2 — Secure America Act	Yea	Jun 3, 2026	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 188 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the…	Nay	Jun 3, 2026	Motion to Proceed Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Jeffrey M. Kuhlman, of Kansas, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Kansas	Yea	Jun 2, 2026	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jeffrey M. Kuhlman to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Kansas	Yea	Jun 2, 2026	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kathleen S. Lane, of Montana, to be U.S. District Judge for the District of Montana	Yea	Jun 2, 2026	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.