Brian Schatz

15 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2012

• Senator HI 2012–present

• background Born October 20, 1972
• role Hawaii House of Representatives (1998–2006, 25th district)
• role Chair of Democratic Party of Hawaii (2008–2010), lieutenant governor (2010–2012)
• background CEO of Helping Hands Hawaii (nonprofit social service agency)
• role U.S. senator from Hawaii (since 2012); reelected 2016, 2022
• achievement Youngest U.S. senator in 112th Congress; won 2014 special election (~70%)

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $49,138 · 80 receipts

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 54
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 304 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 54 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 11 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 18
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Brian Schatz. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Appropriations Committee
• Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · oversees Technology, Telecom
• Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee · oversees Technology, Telecom
• Department of Defense Subcommittee
• Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee · oversees Health
• Ethics (Select) Committee
• Foreign Relations Committee
• Indian Affairs Committee Vice Chairman
• Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
• Multilateral International Development, Multilateral Institutions, and International Economic, Energy, and Environmental Policy Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee
• Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries Subcommittee
• Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy Subcommittee · oversees Technology
• East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee
• Europe and Regional Security Cooperation Subcommittee
• Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety Subcommittee
• Telecommunications and Media Subcommittee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Schatz most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Schatz connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov