Who?
Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL) — Chair, House Armed Services Committee (HASC)
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Ask a Pol asks:
Do you know what's up with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA) in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)?
Key Rogers:
“Nuh-uh,” HASC Chair Mike Rogers exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “I haven't heard anything about it.”
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Caught our ear:
“I don’t even remember us talking about it in the past,” Chair Rogers tells us.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Mike Rogers (9-4-2025)
SCENE: House Armed Services Committee — aka, HASC — Chair Mike Rogers is walking down the Capitol steps after voting on the House floor when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo catches up with him…
Matt Laslo: “Hey Chairman Rogers.”
Rogers turns around on the Capitol’s steps.
ML: “How are you?”
Mike Rogers: “I’m good. How are you?”
ML: “Livin the dream.”
Rogers laughs.
MR: “It's a bad dream, but you’re living it!”
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ML: “Fair, fair — nightmare, some say.”
They laugh.
ML: “Have you seen — do you know what's up with Senate Leader [Chuck] Schumer's UAPDA in the NDAA this year?”
MR: “Nuh-uh. I haven't heard anything about it.”
ML: “No?”
MR: “Nuh-uh.”
ML: “The past few years there's been a mystery over who gutted it and there's been some finger pointing over here, maybe [fmr. HPSCI Chair] Mike Turner — but it hasn't come up this time?”
MR: “No, I haven't heard anything about it this time. Doesn't mean it won't, but I haven't heard it yet.”
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ML: “Do you know in the past was it Mike Turner who pushed back against it?”
MR: “I don’t even remember us talking about it in the past, so…”
ML: “Oh really?”
MR: “It hadn’t [inaudible] to me.”
ML: “Yeah?”
Rogers laughs.
ML: “Yup. And it hasn't really come up this time around?”
MR: “Not so far.”
ML: “Sounds right. Have a good one!”
