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Vice Chair, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
Brian Schatz is Hawaii’s senior U.S. senator. His official Senate biography records earlier service as Hawaii lieutenant governor and eight years in the Hawaii House of Representatives before he was sworn into the U.S. Senate in December 2012.
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Brian Schatz is Hawaii’s senior U.S. senator. His official Senate biography records earlier service as Hawaii lieutenant governor and eight years in the Hawaii House of Representatives before he was sworn into the U.S. Senate in December 2012.
Open biography & office record ↓Brian Schatz is Hawaii’s senior U.S. senator. His official Senate biography records earlier service as Hawaii lieutenant governor and eight years in the Hawaii House of Representatives before he was sworn into the U.S. Senate in December 2012.
Schatz’s current official biography lists him as vice chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee and a member of Appropriations, Commerce, Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Ethics. It also identifies him as a Senate Democratic chief deputy whip and deputy conference secretary.
This editorial review records those institutional roles and biography without converting routine votes, appropriations requests or party leadership into evidence-rated controversies.