Citizenship Test Answers for Nebraska
Four of the 128 civics questions depend on where you live. Here is how to answer them if you live in Nebraska.
62. What is the capital of your state?
Answer for Nebraska
Lincoln
This is the one state-specific answer that does not change. The three below change with elections. Every name on this page is checked each night against the congressional record and, for governors, two independent public records, and a name is left out rather than printed when the sources disagree.
23. Who is one of your state's U.S. senators now?
Answer for Nebraska now
- Deb Fischer
- Pete Ricketts
You only need to give one of these names.
Nebraska has two U.S. senators, like every state. You only need to name one of them. Senators are elected to six-year terms, so this answer changes; give the name of a senator serving on the day of your interview.
Look up Nebraska's senators at senate.gov
29. Name your U.S. representative.
Your representative depends on your congressional district, not just your state, so it is different for two people living in the same city. Look it up by ZIP code.
All 3 of Nebraska's representatives, by district
| District | Representative |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mike Flood |
| 2 | Don Bacon |
| 3 | Adrian Smith |
If you do not know your district, the lookup below finds it from your ZIP code.
Find your representative at house.gov
Residents of territories with nonvoting Delegates or Resident Commissioners may provide the name of that Delegate or Commissioner. Also acceptable is any statement that the territory has no (voting) representatives in Congress.
61. Who is the governor of your state now?
Answer for Nebraska now
Jim Pillen
Governors are elected and change, so answer with whoever is serving on the day of your
interview. Your state government's official .gov website is the reliable
place to check.
Background on Nebraska
Lincoln is Nebraska's capital, renamed for the president in 1867 when the seat moved from Omaha, which remains the larger city. Nebraska became the 37th state that same year. It has 3 congressional districts and 5 electoral votes, and like Maine it splits some of those electors by district rather than giving them all to the statewide winner — one of only two states that does. Nebraska is also the only state with a unicameral legislature, a single chamber rather than two, which makes a useful contrast with a question the test asks directly: Congress has two parts, the Senate and the House, and a bill must pass both. The territory itself was organized by the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, the law that let settlers vote on slavery and reopened the fight the Missouri Compromise had settled.
This background section is written by US Citizenship Test Practice. It is not part of the USCIS question list, and it names no senator, representative or governor itself: those names change with elections, so they appear only in the answers above, which are checked every night.
The other 124 questions
Everything else on the civics test is the same no matter where you live.