September 6, 2025
By Cindy Gonzalez, Nebraska Examiner. OMAHA — A federal program to help boost small rural businesses would be extended and enhanced under a bipartisan bill to be introduced Thursday by U.S. Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., and a Democratic colleague from Minnesota. The Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program — created in the 2008 Farm Bill and overseen by […]
August 30, 2025
By Ian Mason, WOWT 6. GRAND ISLAND, Neb. (KSNB) - Sen. Pete Ricketts hosted his second Federal Issues Forum at the Nebraska State Fair Friday morning. The event included a legislative update from Ricketts and two panel discussions on federal issues facing Nebraskans. It comes after Ricketts hosted his first-ever federal issues forum last year on challenges […]
July 11, 2025
By Quinn Delamater, The Daily Signal. Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts and Democrat Sen. John Fetterman are joining forces to introduce bipartisan legislation to combat Communist China’s threat to American farming. “It’s not just about the number of acres that they [the Chinese] own, but the fact that they own it around Grand Forks Air Force Base […]
