1. United States
2. Md.
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to demand a formal conflict of interest review before the Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery merger closes on March 20, 2026. This $111 billion deal, the largest media merger in US history, creates unprecedented conflicts between federal data security and private profit that threaten both national security and constituent privacy. Oracle Corporation now controls the data infrastructure for over 150 million Americans through Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA marketplace contracts awarded on February 11, 2026. One day later, the Air Force awarded Oracle $88 million for Cloud One, a classified platform handling Top Secret and Special Access Programs. On February 28, Oracle received authorization to run Elon Musk's Grok generative AI on federal government data at the highest security clearances. The merger consolidates HBO, Max, CNN, Warner Bros., CBS, Paramount+, MTV, and Nickelodeon under David Ellison, Larry Ellison's son. All of this media infrastructure runs on Oracle cloud at $100 million annually. Larry Ellison personally guarantees $44.6 billion of the acquisition using Oracle shares as collateral. Those shares maintain their value through the federal contracts his company holds. Oracle is listed as a "neutral third-party vendor" in merger filings despite being the infrastructure provider, collateral source, and direct beneficiary. No data firewalls have been proposed between Oracle's federal, commercial, and media environments. When Oracle took control of TikTok, we required oversight boards, algorithm audits, source code inspections, and data isolation. Why are we applying a lower standard when the data at stake includes classified military information and the healthcare records of 150 million Americans? In October 2024, Ellison told investors that Oracle's databases contain "most of the world's high-value private data." In Dubai 2025, he pitched heads of state on unifying all citizen data, including genomic information, into single AI-accessible databases. This is not theoretical. This is his stated business model. I urge you to request the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee conduct a formal conflict of interest review, require data firewalls modeled on TikTok standards, and treat Oracle as a related party rather than a neutral vendor before the March 20 shareholder vote.