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The UAPDA has been filed again this year by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, with Senators Mike Rounds and Kirsten Gillibrand as co-sponsors. 
In parallel, Burlison is working to build momentum for the measure in the House of Representatives.
Much of the previous resistance to the legislation is alleged to have come from former House Intelligence Committee Chair Representative Mike Turner. 
But with Representative Rick Crawford now leading the committee, Burlison is more optimistic, commenting:

“I think he [Representative Rick Crawford] would be much more likely to support the UAPDA than Representative Turner. I’ve had some very positive conversations with Rick —he’s a great guy. 
“He’s kind of like Trump: a man of the people, from the salt of the earth here in the Midwest. It’s just a different attitude from people like us. So, based on those conversations, I feel like we’re in better hands with regard to the UAPDA.”
Although the disclosure act was reintroduced as an amendment to this year’s Senate NDAA, it has not yet been included in the Senate’s final draft.

That leaves it vulnerable, because any provision not firmly anchored in both the Senate and House versions of the bill is at high risk of being dropped during the conference process, the closed-door negotiations where lawmakers merge the two bills into a single package for the President’s signature. 
With that in mind, Representative Burlison is working to embed the UAPDA language into the House version of the NDAA. 
By ensuring the measure appears in both chambers’ bills, he hopes to strengthen its chances of surviving conference negotiations and ultimately becoming law. As he told Liberation Times:
“With the UAP Disclosure Act I’m working on, we’re trying to file the same language on the House side and make sure it stays in the Defense Authorization Act.”

Burlison’s push to strengthen the UAP Disclosure Act reflects his concern that the most sensitive programs remain almost entirely beyond Congress’s reach. 
In his view, true oversight requires pulling back the curtain on where control of these programs resides - within the White House itself - Burlison commented:
“From what I’ve learned - and I say this as someone who is not from the intelligence community and who didn’t serve in the military, so I’ve had to get up to speed based on what I’ve been told - the Office of the National Security Advisor [the National Security Council staff] is handling these [UAP] Special Access Programs.”

Sources also told Liberation Times that this alleged concealment is not confined to distant agencies or contractors, but operates directly under President Trump’s nose - protected by elements within the National Security Council and by entrenched career officials embedded in two key White House offices.
When asked whether President Trump is truly committed to investigating UAP - and whether he is aware of the level of secrecy embedded within his own White House - Burlison offered a measured assessment:

“I think that if he has the time and bandwidth, President Trump would [investigate the UAP topic]. 
To him, this isn’t as high-profile or high-priority as it is to some people, and I think he’s focused on getting the economy, the tax system, and the overall structure of the United States right before delving into topics like this. 
“But I do think that if we can clear the plate and he has time to focus on it, my gut instinct is that Trump—being a man of the people who hates the deep state—would want to disclose.”

When pressed whether President Trump would support the UAPDA, Burlison responded:
“I don’t think President Trump is going to make the UAPDA a priority, or something his office will lean on to win votes. 
But I also don’t think his office would fight it. If anything, they would probably support it, though I don’t think they would spend political capital to get it passed. That’s just my guess.”
Beyond Trump himself, Burlison also pointed to members of the President’s Cabinet as potential drivers of disclosure.

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