Well said. Note this is in the Rules Committee and the SOTH can always outvote and take the matter to the floor. It is characterized as an amendment by Khanna - what was the underlying bill? Perhaps that is what garnered the negative reception. GOP refusing to change the underlying bill?
Lara Trump announced on Monday afternoon that all would be released, where proper and possible, soon. Seems like a dog without a fight.
Gwjack
The underlying legislation is HR3633. Purpose stated at the start of the Bill:
“To provide for a system of regulation of the offer and sale of digital commodities by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, and for other purposes.”
Your comments were dead on. Demands for release of Epstein files are urelated and inappropriate for this bill. For the benefit of those who don’t recall how the Dems made a huge scandal out of Iran-Contra: Citing human rights abuses, some Dems first tried passing a stand-alone bill ban on using US funds to support the Contras. This failed to pass despite Democrat majorities. Then the Dems tacked the one=page “Boland Amendment” onto a massive bill that did pass. This gave the Dems the stick they wanted to beat the Reagan administration, and the cover to pass it off as the will of Congress (which wikipedia still does).
The Dems know 100% release of Epstein materials is impossible due to court orders, privacy laws, etc., and that the storm following release would likely disrupt Trump’s reforms and foreign policy. They are looking for an avenue to attack and derail the Trump/MAGA agenda.