Pete Ricketts

4 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2023

• Senator NE 2023–present

• background Born August 19, 1964; businessman
• background Son of Joe Ricketts (TD Ameritrade founder); part owner of Chicago Cubs
• role Governor of Nebraska (2015–2023), reelected 2018
• achievement Ran for U.S. Senate 2006; lost to incumbent Ben Nelson
• role Appointed to U.S. Senate 2023 to fill Ben Sasse vacancy
• achievement Won 2024 special election to complete Sasse's term

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $49,711 · 77 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 96.7%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 64
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 354 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 1
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 64 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 10 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 13
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Pete Ricketts. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water Subcommittee Chairman
• East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee Chairman
• Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee · oversees Finance
• Budget Committee
• Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety Subcommittee Subcommittee
• Environment and Public Works Committee · oversees Energy
• Foreign Relations Committee
• Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee
• Economic Policy Subcommittee
• Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee
• Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee
• National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee
• State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development Subcommittee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseFull support from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyFull support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Ricketts most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Ricketts connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov