Pete Ricketts

Republican - NE

Party: Republican

State: NE

Age: N/A

First Elected: 2023

Next Election: 2027

Current Term: 2024 - 2027

Most Recent Appearances

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Brent Christensen, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of Bangladesh, Benjamin Leon, Jr., of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain, and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Ambassador to the Principality of Andorra, Leo Brent Bozell III, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, and Morvared Namdarkhan, of Texas, to be an Assistant Secretary of State (Consular Affairs), all of the Department of State; to be immediately followed by a hearing to examine reviewing implementation of the Taiwan Enhanced Resilience Act, and future opportunities for U.S.-Taiwan cooperation.

11/20/2025

Committee: Committee on Foreign Relations

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Joseph Gormley, of Maryland, to be President, Government National Mortgage Association, Francis Cassidy, of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Paul Hollis, of Louisiana, to be Director of the Mint, and Travis Hill, of Maryland, to be Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

11/19/2025

Committee: Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee

Hearings to examine the nominations of Tammy Bruce, of California, to be the Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador; the Deputy Representative of the United States of America in the Security Council of the United Nations; and to serve concurrently and without additional compensation as Representative of the United States of America to the Sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations, during her tenure of service as Deputy Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, Darryl Nirenberg, of Virginia, to be Ambassador to Romania, Melissa Argyros, of California, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Latvia, Christopher Yeaw, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary (Arms Control, Nonproliferation, and Stability), Bernardo Navarro, of Puerto Rico, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Peru, and Yehuda Kaploun, of Florida, to be Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, with the rank of Ambassador, all of the Department of State.

11/19/2025

Committee: Committee on Foreign Relations

Hearings to examine the future of PFAS cleanup and disposal policy.

11/19/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works

Business meeting to consider S.2082, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of "production facility" to exclude an equipment or device capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements, S.2235, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, S.2741, to establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains, S.3022, to amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to reauthorize certain Environmental Protection Agency programs, S.2110, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a report on reuse and refill systems, S.2878, to reauthorize funding to monitor, assess, and research the Great Lakes Basin, S.287, to designate the Federal building located at 225 South Pierre Street in Pierre, South Dakota, as the "Marcella LeBeau Federal Building," and for other purposes, S.2319, to designate the Federal building located at 300 West Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona, as the "Raul M. Grijalva Federal Building", and the nominations of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator, and Douglas Troutman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ho Nieh, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mitch Graves, and Jeff Hagood, both of Tennessee, Randall Jones, of Alabama, and Arthur Graham, of Florida, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and 3 General Services Administration resolutions.

10/29/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works