On September 10, 2025, Marshall voted to table the amendment forcing the Justice Department to release the Epstein files. It failed 51-49. Five months earlier, two Blackstone executives whose names appear in those files gave his campaign $13,000.
Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman gave $3 million to the super PAC boosting Susan Collins' reelection. He appears in the Epstein files. She voted to defeat the amendment that would have forced the Justice Department to release them.
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. A federal court later found that same police force had spent decades protecting the sect.
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. In February 2025 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, has not held a single hearing on Epstein, 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.