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Deb Fischer

U.S. Senate · NE · Republicans · since 2025

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Biography

Overview

Deb Fischer is a Republican U.S. Senator from Nebraska, serving since 2013. First elected in 2012 after defeating Democrat Bob Kerrey, Fischer was reelected in 2018 and 2024. She is the third woman to represent Nebraska in the U.S. Senate and the first to be reelected to a full term. Before joining the Senate, she served in the Nebraska Legislature from 2005 to 2013 and on the Valentine Rural High School Board of Education from 1990 to 2004. Fischer and her husband operate Sunny Slope Ranch near Valentine, Nebraska.

Career

In the Nebraska Legislature, Fischer chaired the Transportation and Telecommunications Committee and helped pass the BUILD Nebraska Act, which directed a quarter cent of state sales tax to infrastructure projects. She led a filibuster against the Nebraska Clean Indoor Air Act in 2007, though the bill ultimately passed. She co-sponsored legislation requiring abortion providers to display ultrasound images before procedures. In the U.S. Senate, Fischer has championed nuclear modernization and Indo-Pacific military readiness, visited Taiwan in August 2025 to affirm U.S. support for its self-determination, and advocated for measures to counter China's influence. She opposed repealing the 2002 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq in 2023.

Prior political experience

Fischer was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2012, winning the Republican primary with 40% of the vote against Attorney General Jon Bruning (35%) and State Treasurer Don Stenberg (18%). In the general election, she defeated former Senator Bob Kerrey 58% to 42%. Fischer was reelected in 2018, defeating Democrat Jane Raybould by a significant margin. In 2024, she defeated independent candidate Dan Osborn by 6.7 points after winning by 19 points in 2018. In the Nebraska Legislature, she won a primary election in 2004 with 50.4% of the vote and was reelected unopposed in 2008.

Biographical material adapted from the Wikipedia article (retrieved April 29, 2026), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Ideology

Liberal–Conservative (DW-NOMINATE dim 1)

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119th Congress+0.460

Secondary axis (DW-NOMINATE dim 2)(?)

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Officeholding history

TermSeatTerm datesTerminationPredecessorSuccessor
3rdU.S. Senate NE Class 12025–presentIn progressDeb Fischer—
2ndU.S. Senate NE Class 12019–2025Term endedDeb FischerDeb Fischer
1stU.S. Senate NE Class 12013–2019Term ended—Deb Fischer

Committee assignments

Current term legislation

Bills sponsored this term10

Bills cosponsored this term10

Elections

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