Promise Tracker › Pete Ricketts
U.S. Senator, Nebraska · Republican
Pete Ricketts
42 statements indexed, set against 915 recorded votes.
915 recorded votes
- Voted for66873.0%
- Voted against23826.0%
- Did not vote91.0%
Turned up for 99.0% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the Senate, which is 97.9%.
Ricketts voted 99 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the Senate, which is 98.
They vote the same way as Markwayne Mullin more than anyone else. The two agreed 100 times out of 100.
Across the aisle they line up most with John Fetterman. They agreed 27 times out of 100.
The Record prints their remarks under 6 headings more than once. The list below names them.
- First took office
- January 23, 2023
- Terms served
- 2 terms in the Senate
- Current term
- November 5, 2024 to January 3, 2027
- Born
- August 19, 1964
Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.
What They Spoke On
Ricketts's indexed remarks are unusually even, with six headings at two apiece and none higher: a housing bill, appropriations, fentanyl, hemp, resolutions of congressional disapproval and a tax cuts bill.
The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.
- 21st Century Road to Housing Act2
- Appropriations2
- Fentanyl2
- Hemp2
- Providing for Congressional Disapproval under Chapter 8…2
- Working Families Tax Cuts Act2
What Was Said, and What Was Done
42 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Pete Ricketts’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.
- 2026-08-05Hemp (Executive Session)“Mr. President, we have a drug problem in this country today, and right now, there is an industry that is targeting our children with look-alike products with intoxicating levels of THC.”
- 2026-07-29Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Session)“Mr. President, integrity; integrity inspires confidence, and the reverse is true. If there is a perception of lack of integrity, it undermines confidence. We have a problem here in the Congress: 80 percent of Americans believe that we do not do a good job of separating our financial interests from the insider information that we receive as part of our jobs.”
- 2026-07-29EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT GHISLAINE MAXWELL SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON OR ANY F“Mr. President, integrity--integrity inspires confidence. We have a problem here in the Senate and in the House: 80 percent of Americans believe we do a poor job of keeping our financial interests separate from the insider information that we have.”
- 2026-07-21Stop Insider Trading Act (Executive Calendar)“Mr. President, people generally in this country--and Nebraskans in particular--expect when they send their elected officials to Washington, DC, that they are going to serve the communities. Sadly, that belief that we are coming here is undermined by some of our policies that we have.”
What Their Votes Add Up To
The Senate takes 54 votes of this kind this Congress against the House's 391: its floor time goes to cloture motions and nominations, where a yes does not mean pass the thing. There is not enough here to set out.
Voting With Their Party
On the 842 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Pete Ricketts voted on 834 and was with the Republican majority on 831 of them.
834 party line votes cast
- With their party83199.6%
- Against their party30.4%
Votes Against Their Own Party
- January 30, 2026S.Amdt. 4272Voted Nay · On the Amendment
- September 29, 2025S. 2806Voted Nay · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- March 14, 2025S.Amdt. 1266Voted Nay · On the Amendment
Who They Vote With
In Their Own Party
Of the votes both took part in.
- Markwayne MullinRepublican · OK · agreed on 99.7% of 681 shared votes
- Deb FischerRepublican · NE · agreed on 99.7% of 899 shared votes
- James LankfordRepublican · OK · agreed on 99.6% of 900 shared votes
- John BoozmanRepublican · AR · agreed on 99.6% of 892 shared votes
- Tim ScottRepublican · SC · agreed on 99.5% of 879 shared votes
Voting Across the Aisle
- John FettermanDemocrat · PA · agreed on 26.6% of 849 shared votes
- Jeanne ShaheenDemocrat · NH · agreed on 21.6% of 869 shared votes
- Margaret Wood HassanDemocrat · NH · agreed on 19.6% of 892 shared votes
- Jacky RosenDemocrat · NV · agreed on 17.9% of 892 shared votes
- Mark R. WarnerDemocrat · VA · agreed on 16.8% of 867 shared votes
Where the Words Are
The Congressional Record marks Pete Ricketts as speaking in 96 items of business across 40 sitting days of this Congress.
Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.
- August 5, 2026Social Security (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 128
- August 5, 2026Hemp (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 128
- July 29, 2026Unanimous Consent Requests (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 124
- July 29, 2026EXPRESSING THE SENSE OF THE SENATE THAT GHISLAINE MAXWELL SHOULD NOT BE GRANTED A PRESIDENTIAL PARDON OR ANY F
- July 21, 2026Stop Insider Trading Act (Executive Calendar); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 119
- July 21, 2026Nomination of Todd Blanche (Executive Calendar); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 119
- July 16, 2026Remembering Lindsey Graham (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 116
- July 16, 2026Wyoming (Executive Session); Congressional Record Vol. 172, No. 116
The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.
Every Recorded Vote
All 915 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Senate lists Pete Ricketts. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.
Elsewhere in the Record
- Everyone who represents Nebraska Both chambers, with a link to each member's page.
- Find your representatives Every member of the 119th Congress, by state.
The other Nebraska seat in this chamber is held by Deb Fischer.
How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.