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Pete Ricketts Republican · NE

Senate · in office · serving since 2023 · born August 19, 1964

Transactions 30 across 2 filings
Securities traded 25 0 active in 6 months
Disclosed range total $2,250,030 sum of filed minimums
Huddle pairings 3 examine

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

SeatCongressesServedChange
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)

CommitteePositionRankSideJurisdiction
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Member 9 majority
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 6 majority
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2 majority
Senate Committee on the Budget Member 8 majority

Earlier Congresses

CongressCommitteePositionObserved
118thSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate Committee on Foreign Relations Member 2023-02 → 2024-11
118thSenate 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

0 securities

No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.

Previously traded

25 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
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

YearSpreadTrades pricedDisclosed 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

DateTickerAssetActionAmount (as filed)OwnerFiling
2023-09-21 ABT Abbott Laboratories sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 ADP Automatic Data Procs sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 APA APA Corporation - Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 BRK.B Berkshire Hathaway Cl B sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 CF CF Industries Holdings, Inc. Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 CUBE Cubesmart sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 CVS CVS Health Corporation Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 EMR Emerson Electric Company sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 EQNR Equinor ASA sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 GD General Dynamics Corp sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 JNJ Johnson & Johnson sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 KO Coca-Cola Company sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 MCD McDonald's Corp sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 MDT Medtronic plc. Ordinary Shares sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 MRK Merck & Company sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 NTR Nutrien Ltd sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 PG Procter & Gamble Company sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 PLD Prologis, Inc. Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 PM Philip Morris International Inc sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 PNC PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The) Common St sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 UNH UnitedHealth Group Incorporated Common Stock (DE) sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 UNP Union Pacific Corporation Common Stock sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-09-21 VZ Verizon Communications Inc. Common Stock sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 WAL Western Alliance Bancorp sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-09-21 YUM Yum! Brands, Inc. sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
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
2023-02-06 Georgia State General Obligation Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 08/01/2033 sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-01-26 Aubrey Texas Indpt Sch Dist Revenue Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 02/15/2034 sell $50,001 – $100,000 spouse
2023-01-24 Massachusetts State General Obligation Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 02/01/2032 sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse
2023-01-18 New York General Obligation Bond Rate/Coupon: 5.0% Matures: 09/01/2033 sell $100,001 – $250,000 spouse