Pete Ricketts Republican · NE
Senate · in office · serving since 2023 · born August 19, 1964
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In plain language
Of 30 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.
None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.
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
| Seat | Congresses | Served | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Senator, NE | 118th | 2023–2027 | 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)
| Committee | Position | Rank | Side | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs | Member | 9 | majority | record |
| Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | Member | 6 | majority | record |
| Senate Committee on Foreign Relations | Member | 2 | majority | record |
| Senate Committee on the Budget | Member | 8 | majority | record |
Earlier Congresses
| Congress | Committee | Position | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118th | Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | Senate Committee on Foreign Relations | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | Senate Special Committee on Aging | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
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
No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.
Previously traded
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.
| Ticker | Security | Sector | Trades | Buys / Sells | Total value | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCD | McDonald's Corporation Common Stock | Retail & Consumer | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| ABT | Abbott Laboratories Common Stock (ABT) | Pharmaceuticals & Biotech | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing, Inc. - Commo… | Software & IT Services | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| APA | APA Corporation - Common Stock (APA) | Oil & Gas | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| BRK.B | Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New Common Stoc… | — | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| CF | CF Industries Holdings, Inc. Common Sto… | Chemicals | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| CUBE | Cubesmart | — | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| CVS | CVS Health Corporation Common Stock (CV… | Retail & Consumer | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| EMR | Emerson Electric Company | Electronics | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| EQNR | Equinor ASA | Oil & Gas | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| GD | General Dynamics Corp | Industrials | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson Common Stock (JNJ) | Pharmaceuticals & Biotech | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| KO | Coca-Cola Company | Food & Beverage | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| YUM | Yum! Brands Company: Yum ?(Louisville, … | Retail & Consumer | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| MDT | Medtronic plc. Ordinary Shares (MDT) | Medical Devices | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| MRK | Merck & Company, Inc. Common Stock (MRK) | Pharmaceuticals & Biotech | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| NTR | Nutrien Ltd | Chemicals | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| PG | Procter & Gamble Company (PG) | Chemicals | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| PLD | Prologis Inc | Investment Funds | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| PM | Philip Morris International Inc | Food & Beverage | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| PNC | PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (PNC) | Banking | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| UNH | UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Common … | Insurance | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| UNP | Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock … | Transportation | 1 | 0 / 1 | $175,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. Common Stoc… | Telecommunications | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
| WAL | Western Alliance Bancorp | Banking | 1 | 0 / 1 | $75,001 | 2023-09 → 2023-09 |
The Spread by year
| Year | Spread | Trades priced | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | +5.9% | 21 | $2,775,011 |
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
| Date | Ticker | Asset | Action | Amount (as filed) | Owner | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-21 | ABT | Abbott Laboratories | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | ADP | Automatic Data Procs | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | APA | APA Corporation - Common Stock | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | BRK.B | Berkshire Hathaway Cl B | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | CF | CF Industries Holdings, Inc. Common Stock | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | CUBE | Cubesmart | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | CVS | CVS Health Corporation Common Stock | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | EMR | Emerson Electric Company | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | EQNR | Equinor ASA | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | GD | General Dynamics Corp | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | KO | Coca-Cola Company | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | MCD | McDonald's Corp | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | MDT | Medtronic plc. Ordinary Shares | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | MRK | Merck & Company | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | NTR | Nutrien Ltd | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | PG | Procter & Gamble Company | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | PLD | Prologis, Inc. Common Stock | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | PM | Philip Morris International Inc | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | PNC | PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) Common St | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | UNH | UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Common Stock (DE) | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | UNP | Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | VZ | Verizon Communications Inc. Common Stock | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | WAL | Western Alliance Bancorp | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-09-21 | YUM | Yum! Brands, Inc. | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-02-09 | — | New York City Transitional Fin Auth Revenue Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 11/01/2037 | buy | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-02-06 | — | Georgia State General Obligation Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 08/01/2033 | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-01-26 | — | Aubrey Texas Indpt Sch Dist Revenue Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 02/15/2034 | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-01-24 | — | Massachusetts State General Obligation Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 02/01/2032 | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |
| 2023-01-18 | — | New York General Obligation Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 09/01/2033 | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | spouse | record |