Federal · U.S. Senate
Brian Schatz
U.S. Senator · Hawaii · Party: Democratic
65 final-passage votes on record.
Record at a glance
Counts of recorded votes only. ThePillory doesn't score or grade officials.
Office
- Office
- U.S. Senator
- District
- Hawaii
- Party
- Democratic
- Term
- Since 2012
- Body
- U.S. Senate
- Website
- Official site ↗
Source
Last verified Oct 9, 2026.
Official source ↗Photo: <a href="http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Photo_Collection_of_the_Senate_Historical_Office.htm">Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office</a>
No platform recorded yet
This tab shows Brian Schatz's platform in two parts. In their own words: a short excerpt, word for word, from their own Issues or Priorities page, with a link to the whole page, and statements their office submits, labeled as such. Commitments tracked: specific, checkable promises (signing a named bill, funding a program at a stated amount, finishing a project by a date), each quoted with its date and source and checked in code before it's published, with a status that changes only with evidence.
How the platform is recordedShowing every recorded vote. Procedural, amendment, committee, and nomination votes are labeled.
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Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Defense
On the Nomination
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Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Defense
On the Cloture Motion
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John Ratcliffe, of Texas, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
On the Nomination
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John Ratcliffe, of Texas, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
On the Cloture Motion
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S. 6
A bill to amend title 18, United States Code, to prohibit a health care practitioner from failing to exercise the proper degree of care in the case of a child who survives an abortion or attempted abortion.
On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
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John Ratcliffe, of Texas, to be Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
On the Motion to Proceed
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Peter Hegseth, of Tennessee, to be Secretary of Defense
On the Motion to Proceed
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Marco Rubio, of Florida, to be Secretary of State
On the Nomination
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S. 5
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
On Passage of the Bill
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To include crimes resulting in death or serious bodily injury to the list of offenses that, if committed by an inadmissible alien, require mandatory detention.
On the Amendment
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S. 5
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
On the Cloture Motion
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To strike the section that authorizes State attorneys general to sue Federal immigration authorities for alleged violations relating to the detention of aliens.
On the Amendment
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To expand the list of criminal offenses that subject inadmissible aliens to mandatory detention.
On the Amendment
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S. 5
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
On the Motion to Proceed
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S. 5
A bill to require the Secretary of Homeland Security to take into custody aliens who have been charged in the United States with theft, and for other purposes.
On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
No Source ↗
Raised · 2025–2026
$1,484,359
Spent $613,424 · Cash on hand $2,527,560 as of Jun 30, 2026
Money raised by Brian Schatz's campaign committees in 2025–2026, through Jun 30, 2026 (latest report: july quarterly 2026), as reported to the Federal Election Commission. These are facts about money, shown beside the voting record; they don't explain any vote.
Where it came from
- Small individual donors ($200 or less)$55,4524%
- Larger individual donors (more than $200)$992,85467%
- PACs and other political committees$346,04723%
- Political party committees$00%
- The candidate (own money and loans)$00%
- Other (transfers, refunds, interest)$90,0066%
For comparison, the average of the 97 senators with 2025–2026 filings loaded: raised $5,042,860; PACs 18% of money raised; small donors 18%; cash on hand $4,597,448. A senator's fundraising varies with where they are in a six-year term.
Top PACs
- NATIONAL CONFECTIONERS ASSOCIATION$10,000
- MATSON, INC. FEDERAL ELECTION COMMITTEE$10,000
- APPLIED INTUITION, INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (APPLIED PAC)$10,000
- HOLLAND AMERICA LINE INC. PAC (HALPAC)$7,500
- INVESTMENT COMPANY INSTITUTE PAC$6,000
- HCA HEALTHCARE, INC. GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND$5,000
- TENET HEALTHCARE CORPORATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE$5,000
- NATIONAL VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION VENTUREPAC$5,000
- HOLLAND & KNIGHT COMMITTEE FOR EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT$5,000
- ELEVANCE HEALTH PAC$5,000
The 10 largest of $346,047 from PACs and other political committees (23% of all money raised). Every PAC contribution at the FEC ↗
Outside spending for and against
None reported.
None reported.
Independent expenditures: spending on ads and outreach about this member, without coordinating with the campaign. This money isn't given to the campaign. FEC record ↗
Top contributing industries (approximate)
- Finance, insurance and banking$109,297
- Issue and advocacy groups$78,750
- Lawyers and lobbyists$73,050
- Technology and telecommunications$61,000
- Health care$47,028
- Transportation$22,500
- Government and public sector$14,370
- Energy and utilities$13,500
Approximate. Industries are assigned by keywords in PAC and employer names (how); 46% of these dollars matched an industry, and the rest are left unclassified rather than guessed. Employer amounts count only donors who gave more than $200, from the campaign's principal committee.
Donors' employers
- ANTHROPIC$41,500
- FIRST HAWAIIAN BANK$19,250
- MATSON$14,500
- BLACKSTONE$10,500
- KKR$10,500
- COMCAST$10,000
- CAPE$8,500
- DAVIS LEVIN LIVINGSTON$7,700
- COMCAST CORPORATION$6,500
- HPH$6,400
Employers named by donors who gave more than $200, summed; an employer is listed only when 3 or more people named it. Individual donors are never listed.
Source: Federal Election Commission (Brian Schatz at the FEC ↗), 2025–2026. Read Oct 5, 2026. Federal law bars using contributor information from FEC reports to ask for contributions or for commercial purposes; ThePillory shows totals only and has no donor export. Methodology
Issues
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