WASHINGTON − Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Kentucky, and Ro Khanna, D-California, are voicing optimism about their ability to force an unsanitized release of the Justice Department's files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
"We have the votes," Khanna said Sept. 7 on ABC News' “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”
"I think we're going to get a resounding vote on this," Massie told Stephanopoulos during the same program.
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The Republican and Democratic organizers behind a petition that would force a House vote on the files' release said they were undeterred by concerns that Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, might seek to block the legislation in the Senate, or that the Justice Department might scrub information on Republicans and other allies before releasing documents.
