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Pressure growing on Johnson to call House back amid shutdown fight
The Hill ^ | 10/12/25 6:00 AM ET | by Mike Lillis

Posted on 10/12/2025 6:22:07 AM PDT by RandFan

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To: RummyChick

“Given the scale of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, which victimized thousands of women and girls and reached around the globe, it is preposterous and unacceptable that only Epstein himself and Ghislaine Maxwell have faced prosecution. There is no doubt that the Trump administration’s ongoing coverup of the Epstein files is giving comfort to the pedophiles and accomplices who were a part of his sex trafficking ring,” Senator Wyden wrote. “The Treasury records shine a light on how high-profile individuals paid Epstein staggering sums of money, which was then used to move women around the world or engage in dubious transactions indicative of money laundering. They also show how U.S. financial institutions turned a blind eye to the financing of Epstein’s criminal network, simply waiving the payments through without properly reporting them to U.S. authorities in a timely fashion, as required by law. Financial institutions, attorneys and agents actively participated in Epstein’s illegal operations or were grossly negligent. They must all be held accountable.”

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/as-bessent-withholds-epstein-files-wyden-expands-investigation-and-demands-financial-records

I’m pretty sure the reporting is done automatically by computerized means.


41 posted on 10/12/2025 8:15:38 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan
About the author: I cover Congress for The Hill, with a focus on House leadership. Previously, I was the congressional reporter for The Washington Independent;

In other words...please come back and save my job.

42 posted on 10/12/2025 8:17:20 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: RandFan

He should call them back, not because of the shutdown - he already passed his part of the CR, but because we still don’t have a budget for future years so they can work on the spending and appropriation bills. Those bills are basically their primary responsibility which they haven’t accomplished in decades.


43 posted on 10/12/2025 8:18:20 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: RandFan

He should call them back, not because of the shutdown - he already passed his part of the CR, but because we still don’t have a budget for future years so they can work on the spending and appropriation bills. Those bills are basically their primary responsibility which they haven’t accomplished in decades.


44 posted on 10/12/2025 8:18:20 AM PDT by falcon99 ( )
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To: Dan in Wichita
It's your opinion. Ignore the thread. Post your own article.

Or better yet, you can start your own website.

45 posted on 10/12/2025 8:20:21 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: RandFan

This is the Far lefty Hill Sheet Toilet paper. Don’t sweat the bit about the GOOBERs starting to crumble. Just continue to stand tall.


46 posted on 10/12/2025 8:21:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't miss out on Schumer's RAW Shutdown Cheese Burgers. Get 'em now!)
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To: RandFan

You say, “If he blacklists the sHill, Politico etc. it would be an echo chamber here and BORING quite frankly.”
I say, FR existed for twenty years with only an occasional reference to left wing sites. Now it seems that Conservative sites are avoided and left wing sites are slowly becoming the majority.


47 posted on 10/12/2025 8:24:25 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fair enough, but please don’t ever accuse me of censorship again.


48 posted on 10/12/2025 8:24:53 AM PDT by Dan in Wichita
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To: Brian Griffin

Go back and read about Jes staley. He has been investigated by the UK. Read about how people at his bank saw issues and he shut them down vouching for Epstein.

Leon blacks SARs were not provided by the bank until after Epstein died

The Treasury files are going to show a tangled web of intrigue. Not sure the peon public will ever know the real truth behind Epstein and the powerful people. I have no doubt Bessent was involved in the web. Not saying he was involved with girls. He is gay. But like I said ..girls are a minor player in the Epstein story.


49 posted on 10/12/2025 8:27:51 AM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: RandFan

Would someone please explain to me why anyone seriously believes that Deep State would leave the Trump admin with files that hadn’t been tampered with?

Jeez louise, people.


50 posted on 10/12/2025 8:28:03 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 )
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To: RandFan

Jen Kiggans’ district pretty much surrounds Norfolk and has a lot of navy people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%27s_2nd_congressional_district


51 posted on 10/12/2025 8:31:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Bookshelf
FR existed for twenty years with only an occasional reference to left wing sites. Now it seems that Conservative sites are avoided and left wing sites are slowly becoming the majority.

If you are complaining, ignore this thread and post your own articles from "conservative" sites.

As simple as that.

52 posted on 10/12/2025 8:32:22 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: mewzilla

Are you claiming they inserted false fincen documents? And then created false documents at each bank involved with the transaction. thousands of them?
There is a trail. Perhaps someone might try to delete one of the trails . I am sure shenanigans took place during the laundering of billions but some of this will exist.


53 posted on 10/12/2025 8:37:39 AM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: RummyChick

“On September 17, 2025, US congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky claimed during a House hearing featuring testimony from FBI Director Kash Patel that Staley was on a list of at least 20 prominent men that Jeffrey Epstein had sex trafficked young women and girls to, and that this list was in FBI possession.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes_Staley


54 posted on 10/12/2025 8:42:07 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

I believe Massey mentioned him because he has been in the “system “over this. He recently lost some kind of appeal in the UK over his shenanigans.


55 posted on 10/12/2025 8:45:02 AM PDT by RummyChick (If I did not provide a link in my post none will be forthcoming )
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To: RandFan

The funding bill sits in the US Senate. The House has already passed it. No need to revisit.


56 posted on 10/12/2025 8:51:17 AM PDT by politicket
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To: Bookshelf

“Now it seems that Conservative sites are avoided and left wing sites are slowly becoming the majority.”

“The Hill” tends to post stories fast, is not paywalled, and doesn’t try to gobble up a large percentage of my 12GB 30-day data allowance.

And there simply is a shortage of conservative sites. The media has been mainly leftist since the Great Depression nearly 100 years ago.


57 posted on 10/12/2025 8:53:42 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: RandFan

Call them back to do what exactly? They already passed a clean CR.


58 posted on 10/12/2025 9:19:25 AM PDT by desertsolitaire (hite sea. My grandfather shouted warning to anyone who would listen that the Titanic was going to st)
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To: Right_Wing_Madman

The House completed its role

The constipated Senate is scrabbling for excuses to NOT do its job


59 posted on 10/12/2025 9:29:21 AM PDT by silverleaf (“Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out” —David Horowitz)
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To: Dan in Wichita

depends on one’s agenda.


60 posted on 10/12/2025 9:36:43 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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