WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s failure to make public its records related to sex predator Jeffrey Epstein.
The committee voted 24-19 on the resolution by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), with five Republicans and all Democrats in support.
Mace told HuffPost the subpoena would require Bondi to sit for a closed-door deposition.
“Over 65,000 documents missing, and we know there are more than 2,000 videos that are out there,” Mace said. “They’re not giving Congress all the information, all the documents, and they’re obfuscating, and I’d like to ask questions about that.”
The vote came as a surprise Wednesday and once again thrust the House Oversight Committee to the forefront of the congressional response to the Trump administration’s continuing refusal to release the Epstein files. The committee first voted in July to subpoena the Justice Department for the files, and it received thousands of documents in response. In November, Congress passed a law requiring all of the files to be made public in a searchable database.
