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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com If you’re wondering how the Senate-passed UAP amendment was gutted in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (or NDAA), look no further than the bill’s top sponsors. Instead of being the loudest cheerleaders for disclosure, they—Sens. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Todd Young (R-IN), Marco Rub...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com The dust may still be settling on the full extent of the changes to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s UAP (or UFO) amendment in this year’s NDAA (or National Defense Authorization Act), but many House members have seen enough. “It's b******t,” Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) tells Ask a Pol. Burlison plans to opp…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com The unofficial head of the Congressional UAP caucus is deflated. After the UAP (aka UFO) measures the caucus wanted included in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) were stripped out by party leaders, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) is all questions and few answers. “Tell me what happened with NDAA? I'm not...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com Final language for the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has now been released , and, just like many of you, even lawmakers with coveted seats on the formal conference committee between the House and Senate (mostly) Armed…

US CAPITOL — The congressional UAP Caucus press conference uncut and dirty (mic is not connected to the podium, but on seat next to me as I recorded videos…which are coming…as separate posts…look for em…). Speaker order: Reps. Tim Burchett (R-TN), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Eric Burlison (R-MO) and Andy Ogles (R-TN) Date: Thursday, November 30, 2023 Enjoy...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com Transparency advocates are up in arms over this year’s secretive NDAA—National Defense Authorization Act—conference negotiations, especially after reporters were only allowed in for less than 30 minutes to record four opening statements before getting the boot yesterday. Many lawmakers were also frustrated after t…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com As part of the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) conference negotiations between the House and Senate conferees Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) pushing for UAPs (or UFOS) to be taken seriously by party leaders. Most members of the Congressional UAP C…

“It’s not at our level at this moment,” Senate Armed Services Committee — SASC — Ranking Member Roger Wicker exclusively tells Ask a Pol . *the actual podcast for this episode is a general scrum—but a telling one (still ping us for the audio, cause should be on C-SPAN…) Wicker’s the last to exit the hearing room, so he’s got staff-blockers with him. I’m also flanked by a solid Politico defense rep...

"I just talked to the Speaker,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) exclusively tells Ask a Pol (pssst: WE ARE Ask a Pol . SUBSCRBE ALREADY fam!). “& he agreed with me: We just need total disclosure” BUCKLE. UP. Burchett takes us on a ride (wait for Burchett to get the size of Rick, a homeless man (…so he can buy him a warm Carhart jacket…) who protests regularly at the Capitol. “You’re upscale homeless,” Bu...

“I understand a lot of the language is duplicative of existing language. We're sorting through it,” House Armed Services Committee Chair Mike Rogers exclusively tells Ask a Pol . “We’ll figure it out.” More (much longer exclusives…) to come…from Ask a Pol, not from the conference committee… Matt Laslo’ s a veteran congressional correspondent, new media prof . & founder of Ask a Pol — a new, people...

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was a bit distracted today, after allegedly being sucker elbowed by former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, but he still picked up my (second) call for my Raw Story piece on the temper tantrums being thrown on both sides of the US Capitol today. PLZ CLICK THROUGH SO PAYING CLIENTS SMILE! Still, I made sure to keep the time constrained congressman around for a quick question on whet...

Earlier this year, Vice-Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Ask a Pol UFO whistleblower David Grusch was vetted by the Inspector General and then referred to Congress—“This is the first one that’s gone through this process”—so he confused us this month when he told us the Senate’s waiting for the IG investigation to play out. “That’s an Inspector General process,” Ru...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com We shared the first—“ Classified .”—bit of our 1-on-1 with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez yesterday. It’s our shortest interview from House Oversight Committee members leaving the classified briefing on UAPs in the SCIF. Brief but illuminating. Shows the fear of god the intel community instills in lawmakers when they...

Fresh off helping oust now former-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) says it’s past time to upend the current House investigation into UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, according to NASA , or UFOs, according to Wiki ). Mace was the third lawmaker to leave yesterday’s classified UAP briefing underneath the Capitol, breezing past a stationery—due to arcane rules, mind you—TV camera...

Immediately after House Republicans picked the party’s new leader on Capitol Hill, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), along with 5 of the 8 other Republicans who ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy three weeks ago, rushed to address the congressional press corps before newly minted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) did. The group was in a rush—as you’ll hear in the audio, which includes the first portion of the...

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In the House, it sucks being in the minority party even when there is a speaker.  So first-term Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL) hasn’t had much to do the past few weeks. Except sit front row as Republicans shoddy lil political game of thrones remake airs live on cable after accidentally capturing former-Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s proverbial political head. In all the drama, Moskowitz was glad to hear UA...

Everything on Capitol Hill remains ground to a halt, because the House of Representatives remains speaker-less. Earlier last week, we asked Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) where then opponents, former Speaker-Designate Steve Scalise and current Speaker-Designate Jim Jordan, were on disclosure. "I don't know. I don't know. They both agreed that we need to do something about it, though. So I'm confident th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com Today, we had the displeasure of breaking the news to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN)  that earlier this year Speaker Kevin McCarthy toured Ohio’s Wright-Patterson Airforce Base with House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Tur…

It seems the defense industry is in on House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner’s secrets, because, while he refuses to take questions from the congressional press corps these days, he’s now a magnet for military industrial complex cash .  Washington has a way of changing—many say, corrupting—people. That seems to be the case with Turner who’s now on his 11th term in Congress. While Turner’s...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) exclusively tells Ask a Pol her and a bipartisan group of senators are, quietly, pressuring officials in the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) to make the necessary reforms so whistleblowers start trusting the office—one she says Congress is dependent on for intelligence on UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, according to NASA , or UFOs).  “T...

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner and Vice-Chair Marco Rubio “recently” met with All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) Director Sean Kirkpatrick and, according to Warner, “reiterated our belief that this is a really serious topic and needs to be treated that way.” For actual UFO news—and not rumors—we’re the go to source. Subscribe for FREE or consider supporting our work. Belo...

Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’ s exclusive with Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), slightly edited for clarity. Matt Laslo : “Safer banking. What do you make of this new section?”  Kevin Cramer : “I think, this new section—it’s not so much a new section, it’s new language in the other section, the section 10 piece. I think it's fine.” ML : “It’s got an ‘r’ on it—safer.” KC : “Yeah. Actually, I...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, slightly edited for clarity. The full audio is included for paid subscribers only for the…

Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) was the member of the House Intelligence Committee who chaired last year’s UFO hearing, but he’s fairly closed-lips on the topic now. Short. Secretive. Telling. BONUS TRACK: Reminds us. Here’s our formerly-unreleased exclusive with Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL). He’s a cagey Chicagoan (writes a Cagey Chicagoan…who’s also Midwest-nice…). Quigley only just transferred off the Int...