Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Pete Ricketts (R-NE) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) issued the following statement in response to the news that Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft were among the U.S. companies to remove TikTok from their app stores in accordance with the bipartisan law passed by Congress. “W...

January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) issued the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in TikTok Inc v. Garland. In the ruling, the Supreme Court upheld a law passed overwhelmingly by Congress requiring Bytedance, a Chinese company and TikTo...

January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a new member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, questioned Scott Turner, President Trump’s nominee to be U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Ricketts cited successful efforts made in Nebraska...

January 17, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, questioned Lee Zeldin at the confirmation hearing of Zeldin’s nomination by President Trump to be Administrator of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA). “The rule o...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) called on his colleagues to pass the Laken Riley Act. The Laken Riley Act would require U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to detain illegal aliens who commit theft, burglary, larceny, or shoplifting o...

January 16, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE) expressed his support for Senator Marco Rubio’s nomination as U.S. Secretary of State. Ricketts’ comments came in reaction to Rubio’s nomination hearing, held earlier in the day. Ricketts made the comments while on a conference call ...

January 15, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), a senior member of the SenateCommittee on Foreign Relations, questioned U.S. Senator Marco Rubio at the confirmation hearing of Rubio’s expected nomination by President Trump to be U.S. Secretary of State. Ricketts highlighted the need ...

January 9, 2025 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday on the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE)shared Nebraska’s successes in cutting waste and making government work better. Ricketts is a founding member of the Senate DOGE Caucus, led by Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA), which aims to streamline federal services. T...