"Mike Johnson, the US House speaker, told reporters on Wednesday he will put the bill compelling the release of government files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein on the House floor next week. We are gonna put that on the floor for [a] full vote next week, soon as we get back, the speaker told reporters, as the chamber gathered to debate legislation to reopen the government."
"Johnson, who opposes the bill, made the announcement just hours after swearing in Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva, who took her oath of office seven weeks after she won a late September special election to succeed her father, the longtime representative Raul Grijalva, who died in March. Grijalva's swearing in cleared the path for the vote to release the Epstein files as she became the 218th and final signature on a"
House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he will put a bill requiring release of government files related to Jeffrey Epstein on the House floor next week. Johnson opposes the bill but accelerated the timing after Arizona Democrat Adelita Grijalva was sworn in and became the 218th signature on a discharge petition that triggers an automatic floor vote. Under discharge petition rules a vote would not have been mandatory until early December. Several Republicans have indicated they may support the bill. Epstein died in 2019 while awaiting trial, and the Justice Department previously declined to release further case details.
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