Congressional Oversight

“Last year's UAP hearing before this Oversight Committee confirmed that UAP-related information is being withheld from senior officials and Members of Congress.”

“Therefore, I recommend Congress take the following action, which I believe will receive bipartisan support: First, establish robust oversight of the executive branch's management of UAP information by directing key officials, beginning with the Director of the DoD's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office, to provide comprehensive briefings on what the government knows about UAP and does not know.”

“A lot of it comes through what they call the PPR—Periodic Program Review process—if it is, you know, a SAP or controlled access program equity, and then those go to the specific committees, whether it be the SASC, HASC——”

“And, just this week, I learned from former DoD official Chris Mellon that satellite imagery of UAP from a few years ago still has not been shared with Congress.”

“For certain IR&D activities, I can only think of ones conventional in nature. Sometimes they flow through certain, I will just say SAP programs, that have cognizant authority over the Air Force or something and those are congressionally reported compartments.”

“Many of us have also called for additional public hearings to discuss UAPs.”

“I have seen it personally, and I have also seen the notification requirements to Congress abused.”

“I want to thank the Chairwoman and the Chairman both for their continued support and really treating this discussion and these hearings in a way that is bipartisan.”

“This should be a topic that continues on throughout the Congress so we can gather more information, data, and work with the relevant agencies to gather more information.”

“The American people have legitimate questions, and I believe it is critical that Congress should help address them.”

“To me, this hearing and others are simply about the truth and getting to the facts of what these UAPs actually are.”

“And so, with that information, we want to continue today's hearing, and I thank all of our witnesses for being here.”

“Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and semiannually thereafter, the Comptroller General of the United States shall verbally brief the congressional intelligence committees, the congressional defense committees, and congressional leadership”