Republican · Senate · NE
Pete Ricketts
Placed from the roll-call score. Bioguide R000618.
Pete Ricketts is the Republican senator for the Senate from NE in the 119th Congress. The chart uses the October 2026 snapshot. The position is Voteview’s DW-NOMINATE score of the roll calls. Color is the party label. The place is the votes.
The first dimension is 0.446, drawn as economics +45. That is right of center on economics. The second dimension is 0.485, drawn as authority +49. The other axis sits toward authority. Voteview’s second dimension is not a pure social axis. The chart uses the public file anyway, rather than inventing a different number.
Inside the Senate, this first-dimension score ranks 62 of 100 from the left. The first-dimension score is left of the Republican median in this chamber (0.56). The nearest other Senate scores are John Hoeven (Republican, 0.403), Kevin Cramer (Republican, 0.401), James E. Risch (Republican, 0.551). Those names are neighbors on the scale, not a slate.
The member’s official site (https://www.ricketts.senate.gov), under “Boosting Nebraska Agriculture,” says: “Pete Ricketts believes agriculture is the heart and soul of Nebraska. It’s also the backbone of our state’s economy. Nebraskans continue to…” Those are the member’s words. They are not the same thing as the roll-call score.
One left-to-right score cannot say how Pete Ricketts would vote on a single bill. The identity and the vote file can be checked at congress.gov through bioguide R000618.