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Deb Fischer Republican · NE

Senate · in office · serving since 2013 · born March 1, 1951

Transactions 4 across 1 filings
Securities traded 4 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $102,004 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 6 examine

In plain language

Of 4 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.

Too few disclosed trades here to say anything about a pattern. A handful of trades will throw up the odd coincidence for anyone.

Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.

Seat & district history

SeatCongressesServedChange
Senator, NE 113th–119th 2013–2031 first seat

District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.

Committees

Current (119th Congress)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
Joint Committee of Congress on the Library Member 2 majority
Joint Committee on Printing Member 2 majority
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 11 majority
Senate Committee on Appropriations Member 12 majority
Senate Committee on Armed Services Member 2 majority
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 4 majority
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 5 majority
Senate Select Committee on Ethics Member 3 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thJoint Committee of Congress on the Library Member 2023-05 → 2024-11
118thJoint Committee on Printing Member 2023-05 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Appropriations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Ranking Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
117thSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2021-01 → 2022-11
117thSenate Select Committee on Ethics Member 2021-02 → 2022-11
116thSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
116thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2019-01 → 2020-12
116thSenate Special Committee on Aging Member 2019-01 → 2019-01
115thSenate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Member 2018-02 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Committee on Rules and Administration Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
115thSenate Special Committee on Aging Member 2017-01 → 2018-12
114thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
114thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2015-02 → 2016-12
113thSenate Committee on Armed Services Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Indian Affairs Member 2013-02 → 2014-11
113thSenate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship Member 2013-02 → 2014-11

The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.

Currently trading — last 6 months

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

4 securities

Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.

TickerSecuritySectorTrades Buys / SellsTotal valueActive
LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation Common Stoc… Defense & Aerospace 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2022-06 → 2022-06
KO Coca-Cola Company Food & Beverage 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2022-06 → 2022-06
CSCO Cisco Systems Inc Technology Hardware 1 0 / 1 $8,001 2022-06 → 2022-06
CAT Caterpillar, Inc. Common Stock (CAT) Industrials 1 0 / 1 $75,001 2022-06 → 2022-06

The Spread by year

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed value
2022 -16.7% 4 $166,002

Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.

All transactions

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2022-06-23 CAT Caterpillar, Inc. Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 joint
2022-06-23 CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Stock sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2022-06-23 KO Coca-Cola Company (The) Common Stock sell $1,001 – $15,000 joint
2022-06-23 LMT Lockheed Martin Corporation Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 joint