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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Implacable_Gaze on 2024-09-20 18:56:34+00:00.
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) and ranking Republican Roger Wicker (R-MS) yesterday (Sept. 19, 2024) filed a massive "manger's package" (Senate Amendment 3290, SA 3290) to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA, S. 4638), consuming 88 pages in the Congressional Record.
This mega-amendment includes the text of 93 separate proposals, including complete bills dealing with subjects not related to the military, such as measures creating federal judgeships, regulation of hardrock mines, "combating cartels on social media," and the authorization bill for the State Department. SA 3290 also includes the entire Intelligence Authorization Act, including several UAP-related provisions on which I have previously reported (see graphic).
However, the new Reed-Wicker omnibus amendment does NOT include the text of the Rounds-Schumer UAP Disclosure Act (UAPDA, SA 2610). In a statement issued jointly by Reed and Wicker, they said: "The manager’s package, S. Amdt. 3290, is one amendment that incorporates 93 other amendments submitted by various members of the Senate. The amendments have been agreed to on a bipartisan basis by SASC [Senate Armed Services Committee] leadership, all relevant committees of jurisdiction, and Senate leadership....To enact the bill in a timely manner, the SASC-passed NDAA and the House-passed NDAA will be combined through a series of negotiations led by the leadership of SASC and HASC [House Armed Services Committee]. The amendments included in the Reed-Wicker manager’s package will be considered during the NDAA negotiations."
This spells the end for the UAPDA in the current Congress. For whatever reasons, the UAPDA did not achieve the degree of consensus necessary to make it into the omnibus bipartisan manager's amendment, which means that the UAPDA will not even be an issue in this year's House-Senate negotiations that will produce the final FY 2025 NDAA later this year.