House grinds to a halt as GOP tries to shut down Epstein votes

[Edgetho]

House GOP leaders are canceling Thursday votes and sending members home early for a month-long recess as the Jeffrey Epstein crisis deepens on Capitol Hill.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/house-gop-huddles-on-epstein-drama-00466738

The decision to move up summer recess came after Republicans lost control of the floor over bipartisan pressure to vote on releasing Epstein-related documents. House committees will keep working through the week, but there will be no further floor votes after Wednesday.

GOP leaders were talking with Trump administration officials, searching for ways to appease Republican members incensed over the lack of public information and Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of the matter broadly.

Johnson knows he cannot win floor vote on the Epstein Files. Even MTG is demanding a vote. 47 is throwing desperate distractions to deflect away from Epstein, his files and his birthday card. It is NOT working.

Why didn't Sponge Brains Shits Pants release the Epstein Files? He had them for four years. Epstein died 6 years ago.

Could it be there are some sensitive files in there? Ones not related to OMB?

Like some A-Rab Heads of State. We are all aware of their predilection for young sexual partners. Could be

Methinks that if the files are released, everybody is going to regret it. Including CIA, Mossad, MI6 and ISI.

ISI is the Pakistani Intelligence Agency. They are very, VERY good and very, Very, VERY dangerous.

 

[martybegan]

House GOP leaders are canceling Thursday votes and sending members home early for a month-long recess as the Jeffrey Epstein crisis deepens on Capitol Hill.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/house-gop-huddles-on-epstein-drama-00466738

The decision to move up summer recess came after Republicans lost control of the floor over bipartisan pressure to vote on releasing Epstein-related documents. House committees will keep working through the week, but there will be no further floor votes after Wednesday.

GOP leaders were talking with Trump administration officials, searching for ways to appease Republican members incensed over the lack of public information and Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of the matter broadly.

Johnson knows he cannot win floor vote on the Epstein Files. Even MTG is demanding a vote. 47 is throwing desperate distractions to deflect away from Epstein, his files and his birthday card. It is NOT working.

It's up to a "crisis" now?

 

[Mac-7]

All over a failed Trump promise.

In 1940 FDR campaigned on a promise to keep America out of WW2

Sometimes breaking a promise is the best thing to do

 

[konradv]

Why didn't Sponge Brains Shits Pants release the Epstein Files? He had them for four years. Epstein died 6 years ago.

Could it be there are some sensitive files in there? Ones not related to OMB?

Like some A-Rab Heads of State. We are all aware of their predilection for young sexual partners. Could be

Methinks that if the files are released, everybody is going to regret it. Including CIA, Mossad, MI6 and ISI.

ISI is the Pakistani Intelligence Agency. They are very, VERY good and very, Very, VERY dangerous.

That was Merrick Garland’s call, not Biden’s. Dems were asking the same question.

 

[martybegan]

That was Merrick Garland’s call, not Biden’s. Dems were asking the same question.

So an AG can defy the President they work for?

 

[konradv]

So an AG can defy the President they work for?

The AG is supposed to be independent. You’re too used to MAGA fascism.

 

[mudwhistle]

They love their conspiracy theories, and they spray so many all over the place that they sometimes spray them on themselves.

This is a ******* circus. A national embarrassment. And now the whole world sees it.

Thanks for the worthless commentary, Mr Non-government official.

Keep spreading your lies.

We can see right thru it.

 

[mudwhistle]

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[meaner gene]

Why didn't Sponge Brains Shits Pants release the Epstein Files? He had them for four years. Epstein died 6 years ago.

The usual distraction.
Nobody asked Biden to release them.
Nor did Biden promise their release.
It was Trump and his people who promised they would release the Epstein files.
Before they told their own MAGA's to pound sand.

 

[Edgetho]

In 1940 FDR campaigned on a promise to keep America out of WW2

Sometimes breaking a promise is the best thing to do

Maybe

Hitler and Tojo would have eventually died, Germany would have remained, and still is, the most powerful Country in Europe, Japan would still be a powerful Country, We wouldn't have China to worry about, and we wouldn't have lost a half-million dead, including the man I'm named after, and millions more maimed and disfigured, including my Father.

We also might not have a Deep State and a Military-Industrial Complex.

But Japan DID pick a fight with us. They had all the oil they needed in the Dutch East Indies (Holland was conquered at the time) and they didn't need shit from us. They just wanted to pick a fight.

They got one.

 

[martybegan]

The AG is supposed to be independent. You’re too used to MAGA fascism.

Show me in the Constitution where the AG is supposed to be independent.

 

[konradv]

Maybe

Hitler and Tojo would have eventually died, Germany would have remained, and still is, the most powerful Country in Europe, Japan would still be a powerful Country, We wouldn't have China to worry about, and we wouldn't have lost a half-million dead, including the man I'm named after, and millions more maimed and disfigured, including my Father.

We also might not have a Deep State and a Military-Industrial Complex.

But Japan DID pick a fight with us. They had all the oil they needed in the Dutch East Indies (Holland was conquered at the time) and they didn't need shit from us. They just wanted to pick a fight.

They got one.

Japan didn’t take the Dutch colonies until after PH, when they had less to worry about.

 

[Mac-7]

House GOP leaders are canceling Thursday votes and sending members home early for a month-long recess as the Jeffrey Epstein crisis deepens on Capitol Hill.

https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/07/22/congress/house-gop-huddles-on-epstein-drama-00466738

The decision to move up summer recess came after Republicans lost control of the floor over bipartisan pressure to vote on releasing Epstein-related documents. House committees will keep working through the week, but there will be no further floor votes after Wednesday.

GOP leaders were talking with Trump administration officials, searching for ways to appease Republican members incensed over the lack of public information and Speaker Mike Johnson’s handling of the matter broadly.

Johnson knows he cannot win floor vote on the Epstein Files. Even MTG is demanding a vote. 47 is throwing desperate distractions to deflect away from Epstein, his files and his birthday card. It is NOT working.

You are going to be sooo disappointed when the Epstein files are made public

 

[konradv]

You are going to be sooo disappointed when the Epstein files are made public

How would you know? Has MAGA received advance info on the scrubbed files?

 

[Mac-7]

Show me in the Constitution where the AG is supposed to be independent.

Obama’s wingman was very partisan

 

[konradv]

Show me in the Constitution where the AG is supposed to be independent.

Why would it have to be in the Constitution? There’s been a longstanding tradition of DOJ independence, because the AG is supposed to our lawyer, not the president’s.

 

[martybegan]

Why would it have to be in the Constitution? There’s been a longstanding tradition of DOJ independence, because the AG is supposed to our lawyer, not the president’s.

Again, where is that stated in either law or the Constituion?

If the AG is part of the executive branch, his powers flow from the elected President. There is no other source of said power.

and the AG is part of the executive branch.

the "our lawyer" stuff is bullshit.

 

[Frankenstein]

You missed the 2024 election

If there was info on Trump in those files that Biden had, they would have leaked, shared re-shared and run it 24/7 on cnn and pmsnbc.

 

[JimH52]

Watch for Trump to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell to buy her silence

Already in the works.

MSN

But the timing of the announcement, coupled with longstanding knowledge that Trump himself used to be friends with Epstein, has spurred a more sinister theory from some political and legal observers on social media: that administration officials are moving to secure Maxwell's silence, or maybe even offer her a presidential pardon, something Trump biographer Michael Wolff alleged he has considered in the past.

 

[SeaMajor7]

"Epstein crisis"