The House Rules Committee carried forward a proposal late on Thursday – but was not legally needed – DOJs to release some information related to Jeffrey Epstein, many Republican Trump expressed anger in dealing with the saga of the administration.
The panel voted to send measurements to the house floor with party lines on 9-4, in which the Democrats objected to the resolution being non-comprehensive.
It is not clear that when the leadership is planning to staging a floor vote on Epstein measures. House Rules Committee Chairman Virginia Foxx (RN.C.) said that House Majority Leader Steve Scalis (R-La) will create that announcement.
Remedy reads: “Providing some documents, records and public release of communication related to Jeffrey Epstein’s investigation.”
It directs the Attorney General that he can provide a lot of exception to the information against Epstein and his convicts to make public the “all reliable” documents, communication, and metadata related to prosecution against the prosecution and prosecution related to prosecution – to make the victims identify or portray the victims, violate the federal rules of criminal process, or “protested, or” protested. ,
The remedy is a house resolution, not a bill – which means it will not go to the Senate and does not have legal weight to force the Trump administration to comply.
The committee put pressure on him by Democrats, Foxx did not directly respond, saying that it is a “sound, good-confident resolution” and given that Democrats, when he offered a measure related to Epstein several days ago, also did this as a resolution instead of a bill.
Member Representative of Rules Committee. Morgan Griffith (R-W.) said that if the information was not released, the panels would urge all the relevant house committees to start investigating any obstruction, oppression or delay in the release of files.
Ranking member Jim McGawn (D-Mas) dismissed the proposal as a “cover vote” without teeth that the members of the panel proceeded as they are taking heat on their vote in the first week against a democratic-exclusive modification for the release of documents related to Epstein.
He offered an amendment, which will raise one More powerful bill Rape. Thomas Massey (R-Ky.) And rape. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) Requires Doj to disclose Epstein documents, which Republican immediately rejected.
If and when the measurement arrives on the floor, procedural rule resolve which usually increases debate and “Dem” measures will pass instead of a final vote on the law – Earth members will vote only once on the proposal.
As the panel prepared to pursue the resolution, President Trump – who has called Epstein Matter “cheating” for more than a week and objects its leading supporters to the decision of a DOJ, who do not issue much information about sexual criminals – Say their website on Truth Social He will direct the Attorney General Palm Bondi “under the court approval” to produce “any and all relevant grand jury testimony”.
The vote is the latest development in the Vote Epstein saga by the panel, which has infiltrated Capital Hill and fractured the Republican Party. The GOP is struggling with a push by the Maga base to release an attempt to end the discussion on the issue by the GOP documents and Trump.
It keeps a day -long saga on the bed Delay in the house Federal funds back back to a package for foreign aid and public broadcasting. On the House Rules Committee, Republican scalled for about two hours on Thursday with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) And there is an Epstein controversy to discuss a route further on the pruning case.
On Monday, the Democrats on the House Rules Committee voted for whether the full chamber should vote on an amendment for the release of Epstein files. This effort only failed 4-8 with a Republican-Relf Ralph Norman (SC). The rape chip Roy (R-Texas), another Republican on the panel did not vote on the measurement.
Republicans on the panel, who had voted against the attempt, have received a shock for their vote since then participating in the vote of Thursday night.
On Tuesday, the Democrats made another attempt to vote on the release of Epstein documents by urging the Chamber to oppose a regular procedural vote, which if it failed, would have started the vote on publishing the files. All the House Republican voted together to defeat that effort.
