Previously Van Hollen was Chair of the DCCC
He took on same role as Senator elect in 2016 for the DSCC.
So did he know he would be in those shoes before hand? Was he so adept at that stuff that he was a fixer? Doesn't seem like he was an out and out HRC lover but :
His father was a Foreign Service officer who served as deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs (1969–1972) and U.S. ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives
his mother worked in the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department, where she served as chief of the intelligence bureau for South Asia