"One former top-level Hill staffer told the Prospect: “In some circles, to ‘Schatz’ something is starting to be used as a verb, by which I mean undermining bills that take on corporate power, pretending to be motivated by progressive concerns, when it is transparent to everyone involved that he is just trying to build chits with powerful industries.” "
https://prospect.org/2026/03/13/brian-schatz-comfort-with-big-money/
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Brian Schatz’s Signals of Comfort With Big Money

The Hawaii senator and heir apparent to Chuck Schumer attacked a bipartisan housing bill without trying to fix it, merely to show support for private equity.

The American Prospect