Sen. Pete Ricketts wins a seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Sen. Deb Fischer gains a seat on the Senate Appropriations Committee.
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Metropolitan Omaha’s 2nd District is one of nine congressional districts across the country targeted by Democrats in a new TV ad campaign.
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The chair of the history department at the University of Florida says he would welcome the opportunity for Sen. Ben Sasse to teach a class about Congress if he is ultimately named president of the university, according to the student newspaper
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Susanne Shore, wife of Republican Gov. Pete Ricketts and Nebraska’s First Lady, has endorsed Democratic congressional nominee Patty Pansing Brooks in the 1st District House race.
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Donald Trump celebrated Ben Sasse’s decision to leave the Senate as “great news” on his social media platform, adding familiar insults.
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Civic Nebraska is planning to deploy trained Election Protectors to monitor the Nov. 8 general election and is seeking volunteers to assume the role of non-partisan observers.
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Proposals to seek voter approval for a voter photo ID requirement and to incrementally raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2026 have gained access to the general election ballot as expected.
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Sen. Anna Wishart reports on Twitter that Cameron the Capitol Cat was stolen last night by two women who put him in a carrier and took him away. He lives in a home a couple blocks from the Capitol. Anna says please return him.
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Cameron the Capitol Cat was stolen last night. Last spotted at 8pm being taken in a carrier by two women who walked away with him. He is microchipped, has a loving owner, and a city of adoring fans. Please bring him back home.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts says the Biden administration needs to provide “more transparency” justifying the raid to seize secret government documents held by former President Trump or it will be viewed as “politically motivated”
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Twenty-five years ago, Nebraska Rep. Doug Bereuter visited Taiwan as part of a congressional delegation led by Speaker Newt Gingrich. He returned on subsequent trips as chairman of the Asia and Pacific subcommittee and later as president of the Asia Foundation
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Both Nebraska Republican Sens, Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse join in a Senate Republican statement supporting Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan.
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Jeff Fortenberry shows up for Nebraska Republican Party event.
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Woops! That’s Aug 25 for the congressional summit at Ashland
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Mike Flood will be the new face on the stage at the annual Chamber of Commerce summit with Nebraska’s congressional delegation on Aug. 12 at the Aerospace Museum at Ashland
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Mike Flood will be sworn in as Nebraska’s new 1st District congressman next Tuesday at 6:10 pm central time.
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A mountain of voter ID petitions ready for submission.
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Republican voter photo ID petition drive concludes Thursday with submission of petitions to place the proposal on the November ballot.
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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s scheduled address at the Nebraska Republican Party’s state convention in Kearney next week is stirring speculation in Richmond and The Washington Post that Youngkin could be eyeing a 2024 presidential bid.
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Sen. Tom Brewer took this photo of yellow wheat fields under a blue sky in Ukraine which he suggests is a perfect representation of the yellow and blue Ukrainian flag.
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“They have much different potholes here,” Sen. Tom Brewer says in message from Ukraine after his arrival there.
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Sen. Tom Brewer is going to Ukraine to assess its humanitarian needs; plans to travel through the war-torn country.
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A picturesque day in Lincoln
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Sen. Ben Sasse will deliver an address at the Reagan Library in California this week about critical questions facing the future of the Republican Party
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New Nebraska license plate design will feature this Capitol mosaic
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House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy will headline a fund-raising luncheon for 1st District House candidate Mike Flood at the Lincoln Country Club on June 3.
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Sens. Mike Flood and Patty Pansing Brooks have agreed to a live televised hour-long debate on KETV at 6 p.m. on June 12 in advance of their special congressional election contest on June 28.
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Former Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is the guest on Gov. Pete Ricketts latest “The Nebraska Way” podcast.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts will be on CNN’s State of the Union show Sunday at 8 a.m.
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89 wind chill in Lincoln at noon.
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Douglas County Election Commissioner Brian Kruse says “we may very well have a record turnout for a gubernatorial primary election” in his metropolitan Omaha county.
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Newest GOP gubernatorial poll numbers in a survey taken this week by WPA Intelligence for the Pillen campaign; Pillen, 24 percent; Herbster, 23 percent; Lindstrom, 20 percent.
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Trump moves his Herbster campaign event in Greenwood from Friday night to Sunday night because of threat of thunderstorms, large hail, damaging winds, perhaps even a tornado.
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Almost 100 bills lined up Tuesday for final reading votes in the Legislature as it approaches the finish line with three days to go,
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Republican gubernatorial candidate Jim Pillen has raised $7.8 million for his campaign.
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Gov. Pete Ricketts will wait to announce the date of the special election to fill the remaining months of Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s current term until the congressman’s resignation becomes effective on Thursday.
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While criticizing Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz for their “egregious behavior” in questioning Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, the Washington Post praised Ben Sasse for having “questioned her respectfully”
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The Legislature’s STARWARS water development proposal has now transformed into JEDI, the Jobs and Economic Development Initiative
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Gov. Ricketts lists his remaining 2022 legislative priorities on radio call-in show; tax relief, water infrastructure, Constitutional carry gun bill, “more closely regulate” abortion, new prison.
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Charles Herbster schedules a HUGE announcement at the Capitol on Tuesday. Is this Trump coming to Nebraska?
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