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.
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?”
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