BREAKING ANNOUNCEMENT: He’s back!
WHO:
Congressional UAP Caucus Co-chair Tim Burchett
ICYMI — Burchett was signaling YOU, fam!
WHAT:
LIVE Listening w/ Laslo & a Lawmaker session*
*Come with your own questions for the Congressman!
WHERE:
Ask a Pol’s Discord server
WHEN:
Details will be posted in Ask a Pol’s subscriber chat after Memorial Day
SIGNUP:
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BELOW: NEW Ask a Pol EXCLUSIVE
Who?
Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX) — Armed Services and Energy & Commerce Committees
LISTEN: Laslo & Veasey
Ask a Pol asks of HASC NDAA markup, Day 2:
Have UAPs come up at all in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act — or NDAA — markup in the House Armed Services Committee (aka HASC)?
Key Veasey:
“No. They have not. No,” Rep. Marc Veasey exclusively tells Ask a Pol.
ICYMI — Ask a Pol’s exclusive w/ Sen. Mike Rounds who tells us Senate UAPDA negotiations are a go
Caught our ear:
“No,” Veasey tells us.
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Marc Veasey (D-TX), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Marc Veasey
SCENE: Thursday, for the second day in a row, in the midst of an ongoing markup of this year’s sweeping and expansive NDAA Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo asks for a quick UAP update from House Armed Services Committee — aka HASC — member Rep. Marc Veasey.
Both of our interviews (only one of which we have time to drop now. Sorry!!!) occurred during a vote of the entire House of Representatives. Other than those votes, HASC members were all but locked inside their markup.
The Capitol grounds are chaotic. Bulky Black SUVs. A herds of reporters there. A sporadic sleek sedan. An occasional whizzing hybrid. An occasional lone wolf reporter like Laslo lurking in the sun-drenched shadows, with quick follow-up questions only.
When Congress is out, Congress is OUT!
Matt Laslo: “Did UAPs come up?”
In the whizzing chaos, Laslo instantly senses — ie, knows — the congressman misheard the question.
Marc Veasey: “Yeah, it did.”
Laslo now knows the congressman missed the full question.
ML: “In the markup…”
MV: “Which one?”
ML: “UAPs?”
MV: “No. They have not. No.”
ML: “No?”
MV: “Naw.”
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ML: “Interesting.”
Veasey shakes head no.
ML: “Yeah?”
MV: “Yeah.”
ML: “I’ll be watching.”
MV: “Yeah, I bet.”
ML: “Preciate ya.”
Happy Memorial Day!
Thanks for your service.
Matt Laslo’s a veteran congressional correspondent, new media prof. & founder of Ask a Pol — a new, people-powered press corps.
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