Cory Booker
US Democratic Senator from New Jersey. Co-led the War Powers Resolution effort to require congressional authorisation for the Iran campaign.
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Background
Cory Booker is the Democratic US Senator for New Jersey, in the seat since 2013 after two terms as mayor of Newark from 2006 to 2013. He ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Now in his third Senate term, he has built a reputation for procedural pressure over grand policy wins, repeatedly forcing votes and letters that put opponents on the record rather than seeking outright legislative victories.
On 18 June 2026 Booker joined Elizabeth Warren and Adam Schiff in writing to the Federal Communications Commission demanding a formal 'may not close' notice on Paramount Skydance's $110bn takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, citing the deal's roughly 38.5% Gulf sovereign wealth financing against the FCC's foreign ownership ceiling. The senators set a 1 July Deadline; it passed with no public FCC response.
The letter continues a pattern set on 18 March 2026, when Booker joined five other Democratic senators forcing a War Powers Resolution vote requiring congressional authorisation for the Iran campaign; Senate Republicans blocked it and Democrats threatened daily repeat votes. Across both fights Booker uses the same lever: a hard Deadline that forces an adversary, whether the White House or a regulator, into a public choice between compliance and silence.
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