Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) presents a generally clean financial-integrity profile. Public reporting indicates he does not hold or trade individual stocks; his wealth is concentrated in real estate, removing the most common self-dealing vector. His Senate attendance is average (2.8% missed votes, on par with the chamber median), and no documented campaign-finance violations, family-lobbying contracts, or personal-use scandals surfaced in public records. The only area warranting flagging is correlation-level concern: as a senior member of Commerce and Appropriations, he receives meaningful tech/telecom/internet-sector and special-interest PAC money and runs an active leadership PAC (Hawaii PAC), but no evidence ties contributions to specific quid-pro-quo actions.
Public record
In Congress since
2012
Committees
Indian Affairs (Vice Chairman) Appropriations Commerce, Science, and Transportation Foreign Relations Senate Select Committee on Ethics
Missed votes, 119th Congress
1.2% (11 of 915; median member 1.9%)
Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
$1.5M raised · 23% from PACs & committees · $2.5M cash on hand FEC ↗
H.R. 7008 bans new stock purchases by members, spouses and dependents; it doesn't force sales of existing holdings. The Senate vote was on the version paired with the SAVE Act, which is why no Democrat voted yes. Full breakdown →
Disclosed stock trades
No periodic transaction reports on file since 2024. That's the norm: most members don't trade individual stocks, or hold them in blind trusts and diversified funds.
Amounts are the ranges members must report, not exact values. The STOCK Act requires a report within 45 days of a trade; "late" counts days past that deadline, measured to the filing date.
How the score breaks down
Stock self-trading
25% weight
0
Public reporting and disclosure-based analysis indicate Schatz holds and trades no individual stocks; assets are concentrated in real estate. No STOCK Act periodic transaction reports for individual equities. Per rubric, 0 when no individual-stock trading.
Net worth rose from roughly negative/low six figures in 2018 to an OpenSecrets-estimated range of ~$345K-$6.5M in recent filings, with two liabilities of $750K-$1.5M. Growth appears tied to real-estate appreciation and salary rather than anomalous gains; data is range-based and imprecise. Low score reflects modest, unexplained-portion uncertainty, not evidence of improper enrichment.
Money → action alignmentcorrelation, not proof of any quid-pro-quo
20% weight
30
CORRELATION, NOT PROOF. As a senior Commerce and Appropriations member, Schatz draws notable tech/internet/telecom-sector donations and special-interest PAC money, sectors overlapping his committee jurisdiction. No documented quid-pro-quo; concentration is moderate and typical for a senior senator. Score reflects sector-committee overlap only.
No documented FEC personal-use violations. His leadership PAC (Hawaii PAC) raised $311,500 and spent $228,701 in early 2025, with large sums on fundraising and the bulk redistributed to candidates/the DSCC ($156K to candidates last cycle). Heavy fundraising-overhead spending is a generic leadership-PAC pattern flagged by watchdogs, not a documented personal-benefit finding. Low score reflects only structural fundraising-cost concern.
No public records found tying family members to lobbying or office-linked contracts; his wife is an architect with no reported lobbying ties. No documented staff-to-lobbyist pipeline scandal surfaced. Per rubric, absence of evidence yields 0.
Schatz missed 139 of 4,966 roll-call votes (2.8%) from 2012 to June 2026, matching the Senate median. He is an active fundraiser running a sizable leadership PAC, but attendance shows no neglect of duties. Low score reflects active fundraising alongside fully average attendance.
Sources behind this score: 3 news reporting · 5 reference database. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 1 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →
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