Rep. Katherine Clark (Mass.), the No. 2 House Democrat, slammed the GOP-backed voting bill that the House is set to vote on this week, claiming it was meant to suppress a major Democratic-leaning voting bloc: women. “This is not about protecting our elections. Republicans are not truly afraid of noncitizens voting, which we all know…
Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) shared the names of the six men he claimed were “likely incriminated” in the Epstein files on the House floor Tuesday. Khanna’s comments come as the Justice Department has been under fire for how it has handled redactions in the documents, in some cases failing to conceal the names of victims…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said on Tuesday that he plans to view a tranche of unredacted Department of Justice (DOJ) files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. DOJ allowed members of Congress to review the unredacted versions of more than three million pages of publicly released Epstein files starting on Monday. The push to release the…
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) theorized on Monday that Ghislaine Maxwell, the associate of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, would be “shot in the back of the head” if she was released from her 20-year prison sentence. Maxwell asserted her Fifth Amendment right during a deposition with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Monday….
Survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein joined Democrats on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to unveil legislation aimed at eliminating the statute of limitations for federal sex trafficking crimes amid growing demands for accountability and transparency from the Justice Department. The bill, Virginia’s Law, would remove “barriers that have kept survivors of sexual violence from…
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said he believes Greg Bovino, the former commissioner at large of the Border Patrol, escalated the situation in Minnesota. McCaul referenced widespread protests taking place in Minneapolis over federal immigration operations in the state before turning to Bovino. “All this created a perfect storm for our officers being thrown into this…
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said that the House GOP leadership wants to see the Senate pass a full-year funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security rather than a short-term or even long-term continuing resolution (CR) to fund the department at current levels. His position is a contrast from that of Senate Majority Leader John