House to vote next week on mandating release of Epstein files, Speaker Johnson says
The bipartisan petition forcing the vote reached the required 218 signatures, with some Republicans breaking ranks; the bill would mandate DOJ file release within 30 days.
- On Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson announced the House will vote next week to compel the Department of Justice to release all Jeffrey Epstein case files.
- The bipartisan discharge petition filed by Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna reached 218 signatures after Adelita Grijalva was sworn in, forcing the House floor vote soon.
- House Oversight Committee Democrats released some 20,000 pages and three emails on Wednesday, which they say reference President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's estate.
- The bill would require the Department of Justice to release Epstein files within 30 days, while Republicans brace for 100 or more defections threatening their 219-member House majority.
- Critics say Mike Johnson, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, delayed Adelita Grijalva's swearing-in and kept the House recess since September 19 to block disclosures, a claim he denies while citing House Oversight Committee work.
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House prepares to vote on releasing Epstein files
The US House of Representative will vote next week on whether to require the Justice Department to publish all of its unclassified files on sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Democrats said the emails, including one in which Epstein said Trump spent hours at his house with one of his victims, raised troubling new questions about what Trump may have known. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell and Fraser Jackson report.
House of Representatives to vote on release of Epstein files
The White House continues to call the 'Jeffrey Epstein story' a hoax as the fallout continues after both Democrats and Republicans on the House Oversight Committee released a number of emails from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein yesterday. With newly-elected Adelita Grijalva being sworn in to congress, she signed a discharge…
Headed for the House Floor: A Vote on the Epstein Files
The House of Representatives will vote next week on a bill to release Justice Department files related to Jeffrey Epstein, Speaker Mike Johnson said Wednesday, after a discharge petition gained enough signatures to force action. Newly sworn-in Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) was the last to sign . Johnson's move accelerates...
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