Forces release of the Epstein files — requires the Justice Department to make its Epstein records public, ending years of withholding.
Passed the House 427-1 under suspension of the rules and was signed. Nothing was blocked at the voting stage; what is notable is the years it spent off the floor before a discharge petition forced it there — agenda control, not disagreement.
· The official record
Where Epstein Files (Release) was put to a vote
Stage
The question
Date
Tally
What we could not get
House floor
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill
Senate floor
On passage
The chamber acted with no recorded vote, so no member is on the record on this measure at this stage.