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Brian Schatz is the senior United States Senator from Hawaii, having served in the Senate since 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1972 and grew up in Honolulu. He earned his degree from Pomona College in California. Before his appointment to the Senate, he served in the Hawaii House of Representatives, chaired the Hawaii Democratic Party, and served as Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii. He was appointed to the Senate in December 2012 by Governor Neil Abercrombie to fill the seat left vacant by the death of the legendary Senator Daniel Inouye, and was subsequently elected to full terms in 2014 and 2016.

In the Senate, Schatz has established himself as a leading voice on technology policy, climate change, and Native Hawaiian affairs. He chairs the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband, where he has focused on social media regulation, broadband access, and artificial intelligence governance. He has been one of the Senate's most vocal advocates for aggressive federal action on climate change and has worked to advance legislation addressing the impacts of rising seas and intensifying storms on Pacific island communities.

Mazie Hirono is the junior United States Senator from Hawaii, having served in the Senate since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she was born in Fukushima, Japan, in 1947 and immigrated to Hawaii as a child with her mother. She became the first Asian-American woman elected to the United States Senate, the first U.S. senator born in Japan, and the first Buddhist senator in American history. She earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center. Before her election to the Senate, she served in the Hawaii House of Representatives, as Hawaii's Lieutenant Governor, and in the U.S. House of Representatives.

In the Senate, Hirono has focused on veterans' affairs, immigration, and civil rights. She sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee. She became nationally prominent in 2018 during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, when she was a forceful questioner and public critic of the nominee. She has been an outspoken advocate for immigrant rights, reflecting both her personal history and the demographics of her state.

Ed Case is the United States Representative for Hawaii's 1st Congressional District, which covers urban Honolulu on the island of Oahu. A member of the Democratic Party, he has served in the House since 2019. Case was born in Hilo, Hawaii, in 1952 and earned his law degree from Harvard Law School. He has had a lengthy political career in Hawaii, serving in the Hawaii House of Representatives in the 1990s and representing a Hawaii congressional district from 2002 to 2007 before an unsuccessful Senate primary run. He returned to Congress in 2019 after winning the seat left vacant by the appointment of Colleen Hanabusa to a state position.

In Congress, Case has positioned himself as one of the more centrist members of the House Democratic caucus and has occasionally broken with his party on fiscal and immigration issues. He sits on the House Appropriations Committee, where he has focused on federal investments in Hawaii's economy, military installations, and Native Hawaiian programs. His long history in Hawaii politics and his moderate positioning within the Democratic Party distinguish him from many of his California and mainland Democratic colleagues.

Jill Tokuda is the United States Representative for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District, which covers all of Hawaii's neighbor islands—Maui, Hawaii (the Big Island), Kauai, Molokai, and Lanai—as well as rural portions of Oahu. A member of the Democratic Party, she has served in the House since 2023. Tokuda was born in Kaneohe, Hawaii, in 1976 and earned her degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Before her election to Congress, she served in the Hawaii House of Representatives and then in the Hawaii State Senate, where she rose to serve as Senate Majority Leader and chaired the Senate Ways and Means Committee.

In Congress, Tokuda has focused on agriculture, natural disaster resilience, and the economic needs of Hawaii's rural and island communities. She sits on the House Armed Services Committee and the House Agriculture Committee. The August 2023 wildfire that devastated the town of Lahaina on Maui—one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern American history—occurred early in her first term and has shaped her legislative focus on disaster preparedness, wildfire prevention, and federal recovery funding for her constituents.