Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD).
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Republican co-author of the UAP Disclosure Act with Schumer; member of the Senate Intelligence and Armed Services Committees; repeatedly re-introduced the stripped provisions.
Rounds publicly criticized the FY2024 conference for rejecting the government-wide Review Board and the recovery-of-materials requirement. He re-filed the full text as SA 2610 in 2024 and pledged in 2025-2026 to revive the UAPDA with whistleblower protections.