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Lawyer and journalist Katie Phang warned that Melania Trump tops the subpoena list for lawmakers planning an Epstein probe.

Phang is leading a lawsuit against Attorney General Todd Blanche to hold the Trump administration accountable for its obligation to release certain Epstein records by law. On a Friday podcast episode she described in the title as a "bombshell," Phang spoke with Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) about his pledge to carry out an investigation of Epstein and uncover more about the deceased sex criminal after the midterms.

Garcia and Phang predicted that Democrats would retake the House after the midterms, along with the House Oversight Committee. As the ranking Democrat on the committee, Garcia expects to find himself in a position to start dishing out subpoenas, and Phang noted, "At the top of that list is a woman by the name of Melania Trump."...

A Democratic lawmaker chided the way Vice President JD Vance described the White House's handling of the Epstein files.

While speaking with CNN anchor Erin Burnett, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) reacted to comments that Vance made while he was on The Joe Rogan Experience earlier this week.

"I say this with all candor. Like, we absolutely screwed up the comms of the Epstein files," Vance told Rogan. "We just did. But do I think the reason we screwed up the comms is that we were trying to hide something? No."...

The officials running Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell's prison dodge questioning from visiting congressional staff, according to reporting by Politico.

Maxwell transferred from a prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp in Bryan, Texas. Politico noted that Democrats have wondered whether her transfer to a "cushier" facility was part of a deal to keep her quiet about Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein.

Whistleblowers have alleged that officials running the Texas prison have gone out of their way to make Maxwell's life easier behind bars, and staff for the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees paid a visit to the facility on Tuesday to find out....

A top Democrat had a direct message for former "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah, who was recently released from the same prison as Ghislaine Maxwell.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) told CNN anchor Pamela Brown that House leaders want to talk to Shah, who recently sat down with People and broke her silence for the first time since she was behind bars. In the interview, Shah described Maxwell's lack of remorse for her sex trafficking victims, and now members of the House Oversight Committee want more information.

Brown asked Garcia, who is a fan of the popular Bravo series and has appeared on the network's "Watch What Happens Live" show, what lawmakers were planning next....

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) on Thursday gave his own tribute for Pride Month on the floors of Congress: He told the congressional crowd that drag shows date to the 1800s.

The speech was nested in complaints from Republicans about "Drag Queen Story Hour," drag shows on military bases and an amendment that would ban the events in the National Defense Authorization Act.

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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is in hot water with the progressive wing of his party over his new, tough-on-migrant border policy.

"I think it's a profound disappointment," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) told Raw Story after voting on the House floor Wednesday.

Biden’s new executive order will force asylum seekers to be turned back at the border whenever the seven-day average for migrant encounters — an unscientific measurement that sometimes double or triple counts asylum seekers — tops 2,500 between entry points. ...