Former senator · Nebraska

Ben Sasse

Ben Sasse served in Congress from 2015 to 2023, last as a Republican senator from Nebraska.

Party
Republican
Chamber
Senate
Former
In Congress since
Jan 6, 2015
Last term ended
Jan 8, 2023
Open in the Congress explorerOfficial record
Photo: Government Publishing Office (public domain)

Record by Congress

Counts with their denominators for each Congress and chamber served. Ranks are among members who served most of that Congress (100 or more roll calls): rank 1 did it most often. A description, not a grade.

CongressRoll callsMissedVotes with partySponsoredCosponsored across the aisle
118th CongressSenate0—0 of 0—0 of 000 became law—0 of 0
117th CongressSenate9495.8%55 of 949 · rank 21 of 10093%675 of 722 · rank 74 of 100120 became law26%31 of 118

Ideology (DW-NOMINATE)

Voteview's DW-NOMINATE first dimension estimates where members sit from all their roll calls: liberal (−1) to conservative (+1). It describes voting patterns, not views. Shown for the 117th Congress (Senate), with each party's median and the chamber's range.

Liberal −1+0.67+1 Conservative

Source: Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/

Votes against their party

The latest party-unity votes on bills and amendments where the member voted yea or nay against most of their caucus.

  1. H.J.Res. 100: To provide for a resolution with respect to the unresolved disputes between certain railroads represented by the National Carriers' Conference Committee of the National Railway Labor Conference and certain of their employees.Nay
    Dec 1, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 25–70· Against party
  2. H.R. 4521: United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021Yea
    Mar 28, 2022· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 68–28· Against party
  3. H.R. 2471: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022Nay
    Mar 10, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 35–64· Against party
  4. S.Con.Res. 14: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2022 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2023 through 2031.Nay
    Aug 10, 2021· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 28–71· Against party
  5. S. 1260: United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021Yea
    Jun 8, 2021· Senate· Passage· On Passage of the Bill· Bill Passed 68–32· Against party
  6. S. 1260: United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021Yea
    Jun 8, 2021· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 68–32· Against party
  7. S. 1260: United States Innovation and Competition Act of 2021Yea
    May 19, 2021· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 71–27· Against party
  8. S.Con.Res. 5: A concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2021 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2022 through 2030.Nay
    Feb 4, 2021· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 29–71· Against party

Recent votes

The latest roll calls on bills and amendments, with the member's recorded position.

  1. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 93–4
  2. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 90–6
  3. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 88–8
  4. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 92–5
  5. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Agreed to 73–24
  6. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 40–57
  7. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 44–53
  8. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–50
  9. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Nay
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 10–87
  10. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 47–50
  11. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 34–63
  12. H.R. 2617: Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023Yea
    Dec 22, 2022· Senate· Amendments· On the Amendment· Amendment Rejected 34–63

Sponsored bills

Bills and resolutions the member introduced as sponsor in the loaded Congresses. Volume is not quality: most measures never leave committee.

12 sponsored · 0 became law

How far they got

  1. Introduced12100%

Policy areas

  1. Taxation3
  2. Crime and Law Enforcement2
  3. Health2
  4. International Affairs2
  5. Congress1
  6. Education1
  7. Labor and Employment1

Latest activity

  1. S.Res. 715 A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate on the value of a tax agreement with Taiwan
    Introduced· International Affairs· Sep 29, 2022
  2. S. 3550 Ethics Reform Act
    Introduced· Congress· Feb 1, 2022
  3. S. 3516 Increase Access to COVID Testing Act
    Introduced· Health· Jan 18, 2022
  4. S. 3191 Everyday Philanthropist Act
    Introduced· Taxation· Nov 4, 2021
  5. S. 2303 Democracy in Hong Kong Congressional Gold Medal Act
    Introduced· International Affairs· Jun 24, 2021
  6. S. 2171 A bill to prohibit Presidential appointees from subsequently acting on behalf of the Government of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party, and Chinese military companies.
    Introduced· Crime and Law Enforcement· Jun 22, 2021
  7. S. 2165 Education Savings Accounts for Military Families Act of 2021
    Introduced· Education· Jun 22, 2021
  8. S. 2113 Qualified Health Savings Account Distribution Act of 2021
    Introduced· Taxation· Jun 17, 2021

Committees

Seats as published by the congress-legislators project. Past seats are those no longer listed since Analisa began recording them.

No committee seats are listed.

Campaign money

What the member's campaigns reported receiving, per FEC two-year cycle, and the federal contracts of the organizations that sponsor the giving PACs (each sponsor matched to a contract recipient by AI, with its probability). Comparisons of public records: neither explains the other.

2026 cycle

Raised
$30.5K
through Jun 30, 2026
Cash on hand
$2.3M
From committees
$0
0 committees
From contractor PACs
$0
0 PACs · — of committee money
IndividualsPACsPartySelf

By cycle

CycleRaised (FEC summary)From committeesFrom contractor PACs
2026$30.5K$0$00 PACs · — of committee money
2024$2,100-$16.5K-$2,5000 PACs · — of committee money
2022$960.8K$150.2K$27.5K16 PACs · 18% of committee money

Raised is the FEC's cumulative summary of the candidacy; committee money counts each contribution reported, so the two cover slightly different dates.

Terms

Every term in the House or Senate, as published by the congress-legislators project.

  1. Senate · NebraskaJan 3, 2021 – Jan 8, 2023
  2. Senate · NebraskaJan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2021

Identifiers

The same member in other public records.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Committees, candidates and committee contributions to candidates (Federal Election Commission)FEC bulk data: committee master, candidate master (candidates' names, no addresses), linkages, PAC summaries, all-candidates summaries and contributions from committees (no individual contributors) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 10, 2026 · loaded Oct 10, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Activity counts describe volume and attendance; they are not a measure of quality.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.