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Request Congressional Oversight of Oracle's Infrastructure Consolidation

To: Rep. Gooden, Sen. Cornyn, Sen. Cruz

From: A verified voter in Rowlett, TX

March 3

I am writing to request immediate congressional oversight of a configuration that has emerged across three simultaneous developments: Oracle Corporation's expansion into critical government infrastructure, the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger, and the concentration of control under a single family. Oracle recently secured a major contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to host and modernize core technology systems covering cloud hosting for programs affecting over 150 million Americans, including Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and the Affordable Care Act marketplace. On the same day, Oracle secured an $88 million Air Force Cloud One task order carrying DISA Impact Level 5 and Impact Level 6 authorization for regions serving 18 Intelligence Community agencies. This gives Oracle simultaneous authorization to process unclassified, secret, and top-secret government workloads, a distinction shared by very few commercial cloud providers. Simultaneously, Paramount Global's special committee approved an approximately $111 billion bid for a merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, which would be the largest media merger in American history. Larry Ellison, Oracle's co-founder and Chairman, is personally guaranteeing $44.6 billion of this transaction, secured against approximately 1.16 billion Oracle shares valued at roughly $252 billion. His son, David Ellison, is proposed to lead the combined media entity. This configuration positions Oracle as the dominant infrastructure layer beneath American media, government health systems, and defense networks simultaneously under the control of a single family. The CMS contract scope encompasses vast data repositories, claims adjudication systems, eligibility determination engines, and AI-driven analytics platforms with a 36-month modernization roadmap. Notably, CMS has not issued a separate press release, and no SAM.gov award notice has been publicly identified for a contract of this magnitude. I am not alleging illegality. I am asking whether the government's own rules regarding conflicts of interest are being properly applied when a single entity controls infrastructure for defense intelligence, healthcare data for 150 million Americans, and the largest media company in American history. This warrants immediate congressional review.

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