Hearing to Receive Testimony on the Mission, Activities, Oversight, and Budget of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office - stenographic transcript
What this is
That Gillibrand chaired and presided over this subcommittee hearing on 19 April 2023, and that Rosen and Ernst were the other members present.
That Kirkpatrick was the sole witness at the open hearing, that he is described as the director of AARO, that Congress established AARO in law, and that the chair attributes the origin of the activities behind it to Harry Reid.
That the subcommittee chair states Congress established and funded AARO and that the executive's FY23 and FY24 budget requests did not sustain it.
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“HEARING TO RECEIVE TESTIMONY ON THE MISSION, ACTIVITIES, OVERSIGHT, AND BUDGET OF THE ALL-DOMAIN ANOMALY RESOLUTION OFFICE. Wednesday, April 19, 2023. U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Committee on Armed Services, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 11:08 a.m. in Room SR-232A, Russell Senate Office Building, Hon. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, chairwoman of the subcommittee, presiding. Subcommittee Members Present: Senators Gillibrand [presiding], Rosen, and Ernst.”
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“Senator Gillibrand: The hearing will come to order. I would first like to thank our witness, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, for testifying here and in today's earlier closed session, and for his long and distinguished career both in the intelligence community and in the Department of Defense. Dr. Kirkpatrick is the director of the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, or AARO. Congress established this office in law to get to the bottom of the very serious problem of unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAP. ... In late 2017 media reports surfaced about activities set in motion by the late long-serving Majority Leader Senator Harry Reid more than a decade ago.”
- The page says "the director", not "the first director". - It says CONGRESS established the office; it does not name any individual member as having created it. - The transcript prints "there remains a stigma attached to these phenomenon", singular after "these". - The ellipsis marks text passed over between line 12 and line 22, not text withheld by anyone.
“Congress established AARO. We made it clear that we expect vigorous action. We added very substantial initial funding for the office. But despite our best efforts the President's budget for fiscal years '23 and '24 requested only enough funding to defray the operating expenses of AARO. It included almost no funds to sustain the critical”
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