Speaker Mike Johnson says he won’t block House vote to release Epstein files
by Chris Stein in Washington from US news | The Guardian on (#70XKW)
Johnson's House has been in recess since shutdown, delaying petition to force vote on making documents public
The Republican House speaker, Mike Johnson, on Tuesday said he would not prevent a vote on legislation to make the Jeffrey Epstein files public, even as the chamber remained out of session for a fourth straight week.
Johnson has kept the House of Representatives in recess ever since the shutdown began at the start of the month, after Democrats and Republicans failed to reach an agreement on extending government funding beyond the end of September.
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