Mike Johnson, the chief representative of the House of Representatives, announced on Wednesday that legislation compelling the disclosure of government files concerning late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein will be brought to the Congress for a vote the following week.
“We will put that on the floor for a full vote the coming week, as soon as we return,” the House Speaker addressed reporters, during the chamber convened to discuss a bill to reopen the government.
The House Speaker, who is against the proposal, made the announcement just a short time subsequent to oath-taking Arizona Democratic representative Adelita Grijalva, who took her oath several weeks following securing victory in a end-of-September special election to replace her parent, veteran congressman Raúl Grijalva, who passed away in spring.
The new representative's induction cleared the path for the vote to make public the Epstein files|Epstein documents|Jeffrey Epstein records, as she was the final signature on a congressional measure that mandates a vote in the chamber on legislation requiring the Department of Justice to publish the files. In her congressional address on Wednesday, the new representative said:
The legal process should not be postponed another day. Onward.
Under the procedures governing legislative petitions, Johnson would not have been obliged to schedule a ballot until the start of the last month, so his announcement that the ballot would occur the coming week is earlier than expected.
Despite the fact that the legislation passes the Congress, it will still require to be approved by the Senate|upper chamber|US Senate and be signed by Trump. Upper chamber officials have not suggested they will consider it for a decision, and Donald Trump has criticized the proposal as a “false narrative”.
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