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
SJRES 33 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Israel of certain…	Nay	Apr 3, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	Yea	Apr 3, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Dean Sauer, of Missouri, to be Solicitor General of the United States	Yea	Apr 3, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 24 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…	Yea	Apr 3, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 24 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…	Yea	Apr 2, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 37 — A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.	Nay	Apr 2, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Harmeet Dhillon to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Apr 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Dean Sauer to be Solicitor General of the United States	Yea	Apr 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Matthew Whitaker, of Iowa, to be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty…	Yea	Apr 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Matthew Whitaker, to be U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization	Yea	Mar 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Paul Lawrence, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Paul Lawrence to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 18 — A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 18 — A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 25 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 25 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Michael Faulkender to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Aaron Reitz, of Texas, to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Aaron Reitz to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: James Bishop, of North Carolina, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: James Bishop to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Martin Makary, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Martin Makary to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Jayanta Bhattacharya, of California, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health	Yea	Mar 25, 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.