House Appropriations roll calls show Hinson absent for all five Epstein votes on September 3 and 10, 2025 — and recorded, both days, on the vote to send the bill to the floor.
Higgins opened his Crowley town hall asking for mutual respect. By the end he had told a constituent he would personally carry him out of the building.
In 2013, a bill to strip police powers from a marshal's office accused of serving a polygamist sect passed Arizona's House and died in Biggs's Senate. The Justice Department later won its case against that same police force.
Ron Wyden says he asked Blackburn's staff repeatedly, from 2024 to 2025, to sign on as the Republican vote needed to subpoena Epstein's bank records. Her office declined. The next year she posted that Democrats had stonewalled her Epstein work 'at every turn.'
Comer chairs the committee investigating the Epstein files. He agreed to an unsworn, un-videotaped interview for Pam Bondi, stopped holding formal hearings, and says he will not call JD Vance or Susie Wiles.
In February 2026 the House Oversight Committee deposed Ohio billionaire Les Wexner about Jeffrey Epstein. Carey donated Wexner's contribution to anti-trafficking charities — a good thing to do. The problem is what he did in July 2025, when releasing the files was still a live vote.
He said the bill would injure innocent people. The bill already lets the attorney general redact victims' personal information, child abuse material, and anything touching an ongoing case. Higgins chairs the subcommittee that subpoenaed those same files.
As the only New Yorker on the House Rules Committee, Langworthy helped block the Epstein Files Transparency Act from ever reaching the floor — calling it a "pointless political gimmick." Once a discharge petition forced the vote, he voted yes and said he stands for justice for the victims.
New Mexico sued the Justice Department on August 5 for stonewalling its criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's ranch. On August 8, the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as attorney general anyway.