Benjamin Sasse, Senator for Nebraska

Sasse is the junior senator from Nebraska and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 6, 2015. Sasse is next up for reelection in 2020.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 Report Card for Sasse.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Sasse is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Sasse has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Jan 18, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Americans for Prosperity: 100% The Club for Growth: 100% FreedomWorks: 100% NumbersUSA: 71% United States Chamber of Commerce: 60% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: C Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 9% American Civil Liberties Union: 5% Human Rights Campaign: 0% League of Conservation Voters: 0% NIAC Action: F

Enacted Legislation

Sasse was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Sasse sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (33%) Crime and Law Enforcement (20%) Taxation (20%) Education (13%) Health (13%)

Recent Bills

Some of Sasse’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Sasse’s Vote	Vote Description
Yea	H.R. 2: Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 Dec 11, 2018. Conference Report Agreed to 87/13. See the Congressional Research Service's 122-page summary of the bill. * * * H.R. 2 amends and extends major programs for income support, food and nutrition, land conservation, trade promotion, rural development, research, forestry, horticulture, and other miscellaneous programs administered by the Department of Agriculture ...
Nay	H.R. 1892: Further Extension of Continuing Appropriations Act, 2018; Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2018, the SUSTAIN Care Act of 2018; Family First Prevention Services Act.; Honoring Hometown ... Feb 9, 2018. Motion Agreed to 71/28. This bill became the vehicle for passage of funding for the federal government through March 23, 2018, to avert a government shutdown that would have occurred on February 9, 2018 had this bill not been enacted. The bill was introduced as the Honoring Hometown Heroes ...
Yea	H.J.Res. 43: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating ... Mar 30, 2017. Joint Resolution Passed 51/50. Joe Biden never got the opportunity to break a single 50-50 Senate tie in eight years as vice president. Mike Pence has already broken two. One from last month has since become law: a measure allowing states to withhold federal Planned Parenthood funding. (The other ...
Nay	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26. The Continuing Appropriations and Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2017, and Zika Response and Preparedness Act (H.R. 5325) is an appropriations bill which extended funding at the previous year's levels up to December 9, 2016 (10 weeks). After this, a continuing ...
Nay	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Nay	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Jul 30, 2015. Bill Passed 65/34. This vote turned H.R 22, originally the Hire More Heroes Act, into the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647), a major bipartisan transportation bill, and the Export-Import Bank Reform and ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Jan 2019, Sasse missed 11 of 1,108 roll call votes, which is 1.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.2% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2015 Jan-Mar	135	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	85	1	1.2%	48^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	1	1.9%	59^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jan-Mar	38	3	7.9%	80^th
2016 Apr-Jun	79	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jul-Sep	34	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	1	1.0%	65^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	2	3.7%	81^st
2017 Jul-Sep	53	1	1.9%	65^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Jul-Sep	75	2	2.7%	60^th
2018 Oct-Dec	56	0	0.0%	0^th
2019 Jan-Jan	7	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Sen. Ben Sasse's Senate office for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Benjamin Sasse is pronounced:

BEN-juh-min // sas

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
A a	cat
B b	bat
E e	bed
I i	pin
J j	jam
M m	man
N n	not
S s	sit
UH uh	cup

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

Sen. Benjamin Sasse

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