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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com If freshman Speaker of the House Mike Johnson greenlights a Select UAP Committee in the new year, Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) is interested in helping lead it as ranking member, ie the top Democrat on the panel. After Ask a Pol recently mention the proposal to Carson, he circled back on the idea with us. “You m…

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com Last Thursday — the last day the US House of Representatives is slated to be in session this year — after voting, Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) was deflated and a tad down after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s UAP amendment to the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) was gutted behind closed-doors. “The public...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com Trust is low in Congress. Members of the Congressional UAP Caucus are still scratching their heads tying to figure out how Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s own UAP amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was gutted, seemingly, in front of his own eyes. Schumer’s role as Senate leader—one of f...

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee ( HPSCI ) seems to be the place where UFO (or UAP) measures — and investigations — go to die on Capitol Hill. After Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s own UAP — or UFO — amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) was gutted in secret, there’s been lots of finger-pointing at the opaque HPSCI . Rightfully so, it seems...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) needs more information. That’s whether discussing her own UAP (UFO) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the incoming head of the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO)—an office she helped create—or how to set up an interview with UFO whistleblower David Grusch. “I need to look into it. I need to figure out what's going on. I don't know y...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com The US House has now passed the National Defense Authorization Act—or NDAA—conference committee report, which means it’s on its way to President Joe Biden’s desk for his signature before it becomes the law of the land. Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD) is the lead Republican sponsor of Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s bipartisa...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.askapoluaps.com We make no excuses for Congress, though we do write congressional explainers. The Trees: UAPs (ie UFOs) The Forest: The gargantuan National Defense Authorization Act—or NDAA The below is important context to keep in …

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...