ICYMI: Booker Introduces Senate’s Second War Powers Resolution

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced a war powers resolution seeking to withdraw U.S. forces from this reckless and unauthorized war of choice with Iran. Booker was joined by U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).

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New Jersey Globe
"Booker and a handful of other senators have taken the lead on Democrats' newest push to rein in the ongoing war in Iran"
March 19, 2026
By: Joey Fox

• Senator Cory Booker and a handful of other senators have taken the lead on Democrats' newest push to rein in the ongoing war in Iran.

• The New Jersey senator and five of his colleagues, collectively dubbed the "Senate Six," have spent the last few weeks making the case to the media and to their fellow senators that President Donald Trump's strikes in Iran are unwise and unconstitutional. Congress, Booker argues, needs to step in."

@SenBooker
Senate Republicans blocked consideration of my War Power resolution to stop this reckless war.
March 18, 2026

Sen. Booker:" Today we will vote, we will vote again and again with a simple demand. That the world's most deliberative body must deliberate. [...] a president that seems so cocky and confident and is taking us to war should have to come and sit here and justify both the provocation of why we went to war and what is the endgame."

Sen. Booker:" Today we will vote, we will vote again and again with a simple demand. That the world's most deliberative body must deliberate. [...] a president that seems so cocky and confident and is taking us to war should have to come and sit here and justify both the provocation of why we went to war and what is the endgame."

CBS
"Democratic senators vowed to keep pressing the issue if Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not testify in public about the war."
March 18, 2026
By: Caitlin Yilek and Kaia Hubbard

• Democratic senators vowed to keep pressing the issue if Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not testify in public about the war. The Democratic senators behind the war powers push indicated in a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune, a South Dakota Republican, that they would abandon votes on a handful of resolutions if the Trump officials testified at public hearings.

The Hill
March 18, 2026
By: Alexander Bolton

• Sen. Booker (D-N.J.), the lead sponsor of the measure, argued the conflict is spiraling out of control and starting to have a significant negative impact on Americans abroad and at home.

• Sen. Booker: "U.S. diplomatic posts and military facilities in the Middle East are under constant attack. The war has expanded, now impacting at least 15 different countries, from the bases of our European allies to our allies in the region."

SEE ALSO:

• As Senate Republicans Fail To Act on Iran War, Senators Force New War Powers Vote & Meet With Veterans
• Booker and "Senate Six" "Declare War on Iran War"
• BOOKER, KAINE, MURPHY, SCHIFF, BALDWIN, DUCKWORTH LAY OUT DEMAND TO THUNE FOR IMMEDIATE HEARINGS ON IRAN WAR FOLLOWING INTRODUCTION OF NEW WAR POWERS RESOLUTIONS