Sen. Mike Rounds: "Negotiations continue" on Schumer's UAPDA in NDAA

Sen. Mike Rounds addresses the congressional press corps as Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer looks on (2023 Ask a Pol file photo). Photo: Matt Laslo

Sen. Mike Rounds* (R-SD) — Select Intelligence & Armed Services Committees

*Rounds is the original Republican sponsor of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s UAPDA — or Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena Disclosure Act

LISTEN: Laslo & Rounds

Ask a Pol asks:

What happened to your amendment with Schumer in the NDAA or National Defense Authorization Act?

Key Rounds: 

“NDAA’s not out yet,” Sen. Mike Rounds exclusively tells Ask a Pol. 

We're hearing it’s being gutted again.

“Well, we’ll see,” Rounds says.

This exclusive with Rounds is 1 of 75 interviews Laslo conducted in the past two days, because Congress started its October recess early. Please consider a paid subscription to support our labor & speed up our posting, because we got lots of UAP news yet to post over the next five weeks! Stay tuned…

Caught our ear:

“Let me put it this way, it's not out yet,” Rounds tells us of this year’s NDAA. “Negotiations continue.”

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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Mike Rounds

SCENE: After Rounds voted on the Senate floor, Rounds and two aides made their way to a meeting when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo caught up with him briefly on Schumer’s UAPDA amendment to the NDAA.

Mike Rounds: “What are you working on?”

Matt Laslo: “What happened to your amendment with Schumer in the NDAA?”

MR: “You mean — NDAA’s not out yet.”

ML: “Yeah, but we're hearing it’s being gutted again.”

MR: “Well, we’ll see.”

ML: “So it’s still alive — negotiations are?”

MR: “I have not been told that there is, you know, I mean — let me put it this way, it's not out yet.”

ML: “Because now the House, they just announced they're leaving town tomorrow and not coming back through November.”

MR: “Right.”

ML: “So we're going to deal with that in the lame duck?”

MR: “Yes.”

ML: “So that's interesting. Negotiations are still alive?”

MR: “Negotiations continue.”

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