Posted on 07/15/2025 4:42:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
California Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna forced a vote in the House Rules Committee on an amendment that would have forced the entire House of Representatives to vote on whether to release the files on sex offender and suspected blackmailer Jeffrey Epstein. The vote failed 5-7, with all four Democrats in favor and Ralph Norman of South Carolina the sole Republican to join them. In other words, only one Republican on the House Rules Committee voted for the “full” release of the Epstein files Monday night.
Norman has served in Congress since 2017. He just so happens to have the highest freedom score of all the Republicans who voted. His 86 percent cumulative freedom score in The New American’s Freedom Index is respectable. His voting pattern improved significantly over the last two sessions, during which he notched scores in the 90s.
The Republicans who voted against the release were North Carolina’s Virginia Foxx (Freedom Index score, 67 percent); Minnesota’s Michelle Fischbach (Freedom Index score, 76 percent), Indiana’s Erin Houchin (Freedom Index score, 60 percent), New York’s Nicholas A. Langworthy (Freedom Index score, 62 percent), Georgia’s Austin Scott (Freedom Index score, 63 percent); Virginia’s H. Morgan Griffith (Freedom Index score, 76 percent); and Georgia’s Brian Jack, who was elected for the first time in 2024. Texas’ Chip Roy, the other Republican on the committee, didn’t show up for the vote.
Khanna said the ultimate goal was to get a vote on the House floor that would show which side everyone is on. He told MSNBC Monday night:
That’s really what this Epstein file issue has become. It’s not just about knowing who’s being protected — the rich and the powerful — in terms of who had interaction with Jeffrey Epstein...
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I thought the files didn’t exist. Why block the release of nothing?
SOP; The minority party votes to do the right thing, while the majority party forces the wrong action.
The GOP House. House of Pedo Protectors.
“I thought the files didn’t exist. Why block the release of nothing?”
Are you that naive so as not to recognize it as a democrat ploy to make Trump look bad?
Geez! Most conservatives realize that when the dems ask for something shut it down.
Are you that naive so as not to recognize it as a democrat ploy to make Trump look bad?
Geez! Most conservatives realize that when the dems ask for something shut it down.
This crap may gut MAGA in the mid-terms.
No one cares about Epstein.
We are angry about no ACCOUNTABILITY for the hundreds of powerful elite who screwed kids.
Prince Andrew has been rehabbed for God’s sake! A royal!
Yes it was a CIA/Mossad honey trap and an Intel operation....all the more reason to burn it out!
What did my Presbyterian ancestors fight for?
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This not true. This was a procedural vote that it failed would have turned over the house to the Democrat party. You should update your posting so that you’re putting out factual information. Pull up the language for this vote and verify for yourself.
Posted this on an earlier thread, but it applies here, too:
One has to admit, any real evidence they had against “the clients” that could have been released, spent years upon years in the hands of the corrupt DOJ and CIA. Do you not think they destroyed anything that would damage them and left only evidence that politically advantaged them? We’re talking about the cabal that wants to rule all the world here, after all.
RE: I thought the files didn’t exist. Why block the release of nothing?
Funny.
However, “nothing” lasts forever.
The midterms are very important.
If the administration wants to be guaranteed of winning them all they have to do is kidnap Prince Andrew and chop his head off on the White House lawn.
Then President Trump can say “See I told you. Case closed!”
Lol.
So you are ready to through everything away, and give the left more power over some files?I say, NEVER! They need to be ground into the dust.
The midterms hinge on stoping voter fraud.
The base is going to give up, and let raging godless marxist lunatics win over a list?!!!
🤣🤣
We live in times like ancient Rome.
The public needs some big names thrown to the lions.
Once that is done they can become rational and focus on normal issues.
“The public needs some big names thrown to the lions.”
LOL! The public couldn’t care less.
One day they will stand before the Lord and have to answer for this (among many other things they've done they shall have to answer for.)
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