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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: