Brian Schatz
Democrat · HI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Brian Emanuel Schatz is an American politician serving since 2012 as the senior United States senator from Hawaii. A progressive Democrat, Schatz served in the Hawaii House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006, representing the 25th legislative district; as the chairman of the Democratic Party of Hawaii from 2008 to 2010; and as the 12th lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2010 to 2012.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- First took office
- 2012 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 49 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 53
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Senate Democratic Conference Deputy Secretary · 2023–present
- Honolulu, HI · 808-523-2061
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $2.2M – $7.7M
- Liabilities
- $1.2M – $2.4M
- Net worth
- −$138k – $6.5M
- Since 2018
- +$3.7M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Brian Schatz's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Brian Schatz (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Schatzsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- Senate Select Committee on Ethicscenter · 6 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 membersCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesMilitary Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (Ranking Member)Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related AgenciesDepartment of Defense
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Schatz's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
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