‘We have the votes’: Reps push for Epstein files’ release

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/09/07/massie-khanna-jeffrey-epstein-files-legislation/86026743007/

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  1. From USA TODAY:

    Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, D-California, are voicing optimism about their ability to force an unsanitized release of the Justice Department’s files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

    “We have the votes,” Khanna said Sept. 7 on ABC News’ “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”

    “I think we’re going to get a resounding vote on this,” Massie told Stephanopoulos during the same program.

    The Republican and Democratic organizers behind a petition that would force a House vote on the files’ release said they were undeterred by concerns that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, might seek to block the legislation in the Senate, or that the Justice Department might scrub information on Republicans and other allies before releasing documents.

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  2. Remember that we also need to send them all to jail after it comes out. We cannot let a single member go free.

  3. Mike Johnson is hard at work buying votes right now, so I won’t drink the hopium too much on this.

    Sadly with what recent history has told us, evil prevails. Pedophiles even more.

  5. A government that protects child rapists has no right to operate.

    The discharge petition alone will not add sufficient pressure, and we need to prepare for more aggressive action.

    Below is a letter that I sent to my representative and senators demanding a government shutdown until the Epstein files are released. Feel free to copy it and re-use.

    Find and contact your elected officials: https://fiscalnote.com/find-your-legislator

    —

    Dear Rep. [X],

    Last week’s press conference with Epstein survivors and Reps. Massie and Khanna exposed a shameful truth: the Justice Department is hiding the Epstein files. To be clear, a government that protects child rapists and their enablers has no right to operate. It must be shut down.

    The Oversight Committee’s release of mostly useless documents is a slap in the face to victims and the public. I demand you support Massie and Khanna’s discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full, unredacted Epstein files. Go further: push to shut down the government until every page is public.

    The September 30 funding deadline is your chance to stand for justice. No funding, no compromises, until the truth is out. As your constituent, I expect you to fight for Epstein’s victims and hold the powerful accountable. A government that buries this truth is illegitimate.

    Repeat after me: Shut it down until the Epstein files are released.

  6. “Being named in the files or having associated with Epstein doesn’t mean a person engaged in wrongdoing.”

    Trying to cover it up does.

  7. There’s no question: For the good of a free society, these files must be released now, unsanitized by anyone especially the DOJ.

  12. Let’s just watch and see if DOJ actually complies. This is a rogue administration, with the support of the most unamerican party in history (aside from the south and the whole civil war thing…)

  13. Yes. They will release the files that are heavily redacted to protect the felon in chief.

  14. Pay attention to how your Representatives vote and then hold them accountable. Epstein Files!

  15. I’m sure there’s a war planned with Venezuela if this comes too close to happening.

  16. Remember 25 year old ~~Madison Crawford~~ Madison Cawthorn? Who tattled that 70 yo reps partied with cocaine and hookers?

    Funny how quickly we all forget

  18. Remember Porn King Mike Johnson tried to stop Congress from letting this happen.

  19. this will be the last chance the world has of stopping trump, republicians, billionaires, ceos, tech companies, people in power across the world and so much more from controlling the entire world with pedophiles. its time to take every pedophile down once and for all

  20. It’s much more than CP. I’m sure trump and admin wish it was just the sex to cover up. They sweep sexual assault charges under rug all day. Epstein has blackmail on tons of leaders around the world. He was a middle man and likely knew enough to ruin the world. I’m sure there is information that can reshape entire governments… assuming there is accountability to the crimes. 

  21. We need the video and audio transcripts from the other victims because they named names. Also, Epstein phone records and phone pads from clients who called.

  22. 47 is going to go after every person who voted to release those files

  24. I’ll believe it when I see the release without black outs 

  25. Release the Epstein files unedited and non-redacted as well as the “missing photos and come up with a better excuse than he was working undercover for the FBI. Your lies just make you all look more desperate. 

  26. Ayo, listen up. Real talk for a minute.

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