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Brian Schatz
Serving in office
Scheduled research active
Main board
This profile keeps a lifetime office and promise record. The trust score is designed to stay close to 50 until enough claims and evidence are reviewed.
Breakdown
- Delivered during the term promised: 10 x 1.0
- Delivered in a later elected term: 0 x 0.8
- Partial delivery: 7 x 0.4
- Never delivered: 10 x 0.0
- Disputed claims tracked separately: 0
- Reviewed promises in current record: 27
- Confidence: 69%
- Current claim count: 48
- Current evidence count: 117
Office History
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U.S. Senator
Hawaii · current
Federal campaign for reelection to a second full U.S. Senate term; Schatz won the 2022 general election. -
U.S. Senator
Hawaii · current
Federal elected office only. Schatz first joined the Senate by appointment in 2012; that appointed start is excluded from the elected-office start_year. He won the 2014 special election, then full terms in 2016 and 2022. -
U.S. Senator
Hawaii · current
Historical elected offices still need research. -
U.S. Senator
Hawaii
Federal campaign for a full six-year U.S. Senate term; Schatz won the 2016 general election.
- Support carbon pricing legislation that requires large polluters to pay for the carbon pollution they emit.
- Increase Social Security benefits by about $65 per month, adopt more accurate cost-of-living adjustments, and remove the wage cap to strengthen solvency.
- Protect Medicare and ensure seniors have access to quality, affordable care.
- Support requiring pharmaceutical companies to charge more reasonable prices for drugs used by low-income seniors and people with disabilities under Medicare Part D.
- Never vote to cut Social Security.
- Always vote to protect Social Security and Medicare benefits, advance gun safety, and advance clean energy.
- Support passage of the We The People Act to overhaul the federal campaign finance system.
- Support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
- Require mandatory disclosure of all special-interest contributions.
- Require federal candidate contributions over $1,000 to be reported within 48 hours.
- Permanently ban former members of Congress from lobbying.
- Replace the Federal Election Commission with a more effective campaign-finance watchdog agency.
- Rein in super PACs by shutting down individual-candidate super PACs and enforcing contribution laws.
- Stop Wall Street firms from giving bonuses to employees who leave to become federal regulators.
- Fund the Safe Streets Act and the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Program to support transit-oriented development and safer roads for seniors, cyclists, and pedestrians.
- Fund construction of a Customs and Border Protection facility at Kona Airport to encourage international flights from Japan and Asia.
- Support legislation to streamline small harbor projects and provide dedicated funding for Hawaii.
- Continue funding the Native Hawaiian Housing Block Grant program and the National Housing Trust Fund for affordable rental housing development and preservation.
- Support rural broadband legislation and telehealth legislation to improve service and health care access in rural and isolated parts of Hawaii.
- Support a robustly funded Marshall Plan for at-risk regions, including Middle Eastern and African nations and vulnerable nations near Russia and China.
- Prioritize working with partners, allies, NATO, and the United Nations rather than acting unilaterally in foreign policy.
- Require clear goals, exit strategies, congressional authorization, and care for returning service members when sending U.S. troops to fight.
- Support military action outside self-defense only when it advances an achievable local political solution.
- Work to deliver federal funds and enact federal policies that reduce Hawaii residents' costs for utilities, commuting, health care, prescription drugs, college, and housing while supporting homegrown industries.
- Support banning military-style assault weapons and establishing universal background checks.
- Support common-sense protections to prevent dangerous, violent people from obtaining deadly firearms.
- Strengthen and protect Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- Create a Medicaid-based public health insurance option by allowing states to establish Medicaid buy-in programs for all residents.
- Support legislation allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices directly.
- Expand telehealth access for people on Medicare.
- End or reform the Senate filibuster.
- Enact policies that cut carbon pollution, invest in clean energy, and protect vulnerable communities.
- Support the Jones Act and strengthen its enforcement.
- Increase U.S. diplomatic, Coast Guard, military, and other agency presence in the Asia-Pacific while respecting regional partners' sovereignty.
- Continue working on the Appropriations Committee to secure federal funding so the Defense Department rectifies its wrongs at Red Hill and rebuilds trust in Hawaii.
- Use federal funds strategically to build clean energy, housing, Hawaii's university system, and effective government systems.
- Make college more affordable through the College Affordability and Innovation Act of 2014.
- Support the American Opportunity Plan, including paid family and medical leave, raising the minimum wage, affordable quality child care, universal pre-K, and equal pay for equal work.
- Support the Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act.
- Support bipartisan legislation giving federal agencies more options for energy reductions and cost savings.
- Introduce legislation to outlaw micro prop bets in games and give the Federal Trade Commission authority to pursue companies that knowingly facilitate illegal offshore gambling.
- Introduce legislation to protect public scientific research and reports from political and special interests.
- Continue carefully withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan at a pace based on ground conditions.
- Support federal recognition of a Native Hawaiian government if Native Hawaiians form a government under Department of the Interior rules and seek recognition.
- Support Hawaii's request for an Affordable Care Act waiver allowing local employers to meet ACA requirements through Hawaii Prepaid Health Care Act coverage.
- Support legislation permitting additional research on marijuana to inform state and federal legalization decisions.
- Protect a woman's right to choose.
- Require clear labels and disclosures on AI-generated digital content so people can identify AI-made content and AI chatbot interactions.
Method note
Long term, this app should score against a manually reviewed promise ledger that spans every elected office the candidate has held. The current model uses a Bayesian-style shrinkage step: thin records are pulled back toward 50 so the UI does not overstate certainty.
Claim occurrences, evidence, and future AI adjudications are all designed to store provider and model provenance. Formula version: 0.1.0.