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Two congressmen have gathered enough signatures to force the release of more government files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

According to an article by The Washington Sun, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) announced on Thursday that they had secured the 218 signatures needed to bring their bill to the House floor.

The measure, called the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, would let victims, lawmakers, and states sue the Justice Department for unlawfully hiding records tied to the disgraced financier. It stalled in committee after the pair introduced it in July, but a discharge petition lets them bypass Republican leadership and bring it straight to a vote, according to The Washington Sun....

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) got in a fiery exchange with Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday after she claimed that Iranians broadly support President Donald Trump's genocidal threats.

Khanna joined the conservative network's live broadcast after Trump had posted on his Truth Social platform that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if Iran did not agree to his negotiation by 8 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday. He argued that Trump's comments had changed from his initial objectives for entering the Iran war and that America should not make genocidal threats that counter everything the United States stands for.

"You don't have to threaten genocide to get Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz," Khanna said. "We've lost the plot here... The president said he wanted to free the Iranian people, and now he's talking about destroying them."...

Democratic activist and shooting survivor Cameron Kasky has opted to leave the crowded race for New York's 12th District and shift his attention to civil rights in the West Bank, according to reports Wednesday.

Kasky, the March for Our Lives co-founder who survived the Parkland, Florida, school shooting, announced that he would not continue his campaign to fill the Manhattan district seat for Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), who announced his retirement in September, Politico reported.

“I am, in my heart, not a politician. I am an activist,” Kasky, who visited the occupied West Bank last month, told Politico....

WASHINGTON — It’s becoming increasingly clear to a handful of powerful MAGA congresswomen that their fight to release more Epstein files now pits them against some of the most powerful politicians in the Republican Party.

Bring it on, they say.

“Sometimes, you just have to f—ing do what you gotta f—ing do,” Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) told Raw Story at the Capitol. “Excuse my language.” ...

House Republican leaders are pushing a vote on whether to compel the Trump administration to release the Jeffrey Epstein files until after the August recess — at the earliest, Politico reported Monday.

Convicted sex offender and former Trump associate Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail cell in 2019.

Reporter Meredith Lee Hill wrote that "GOP leaders have an understanding with White House officials" to hold off on a vote "in order to give the administration time to release documents on its own following President Donald Trump’s move to release grand jury information on the case."...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal is making many of his Republican allies on Capitol Hill squirm — but that doesn’t mean they’re backing down.

After dismissing his own MAGA base as “stupid people,” “weaklings,” “foolish” and “PAST supporters,” the president has changed his tune a tad. But for many members of Congress in both parties, merely allowing Attorney General Pam Bondi to release the Jeffrey Epstein grand jury testimony is not good enough.

While the testimony would be welcome, members of Congress continue to demand the release of the full Epstein records, including the infamous client list that Bondi previously said was “on my desk" — and now denies exists....