00:00Mr. Speaker, last night the Rules Committee spent hours helping Trump and the White House cover up the Epstein files.
00:08Trump is terrified the House will pass the Massey-Connor resolution to require that his administration release the damn files.
00:18He's lobbying against it. What's he afraid of?
00:21To kill the Massey bill, Republicans are pushing a resolution that will give Chairman Comer of the Oversight Committee sole power over what gets released.
00:32I don't know about you, but I wouldn't trust a self-proclaimed, and these are his words, Trump man, to decide what to redact and therefore what Americans get to see.
00:42Remember, Trump repeatedly, not just today, but repeatedly called the Epstein scandal a hoax, and he has called Epstein himself a terrific guy.
00:53And Oversight acted only because Democrats forced the subpoenas.
00:57Today, Republicans, as you heard it, are patting themselves on the back for releasing the same documents that were given to right-wing influencers months ago.
01:07We want the Oversight Committee to do its job, hold the hearings, follow the money, pursue the truth, and protect the victims.
01:17But we can do both.
01:19The committee can do its job, and we can get all we need is two more Republicans to sign Massey's discharge petition so the files get released to the public.
01:29Let's not forget, this is about the women and children who were terrorized and abused by a pedophile and his rich friend.
01:37It's about the cover-up that started with the rich and powerful and is still coming from a gold-plated Oval Office.
01:47We've listened to the survivors share their stories.
01:51They've made many of us cry.
01:53But we won't stop at tears.
01:56We will work to bring justice to these brave women, to do what they've asked, which is release the files.
02:02The rule, by the way, is also a Republican attempt to cover up how they are raising energy prices for American families in the Energy and Water Appropriations Bill.
02:13Renewable energy brings down the cost of electricity.
02:16Trump and Republicans are destroying this clean and affordable energy by cutting its funding in half.
02:23They are doing this to benefit the fossil fuel companies that donated to their campaigns.
02:28Finally, they're also rewriting the history of January 6th.
02:33They quietly slipped into the rule a brand-new Select Committee on Selective Memory,
02:39designed to protect the very insurrectionists who stormed this Capitol.
02:44These were violent thugs who attacked our democracy and brutalized police officers.
02:51Donald Trump pardoned those violent criminals.
02:54Now Republicans want to give them cover in the same halls of Congress the thugs once attacked.
03:04Shame, shame, shame.
03:08I yield back.
03:09Gentlewoman yields back her time.
03:12Does the gentleman wish to reserve his time?
03:14I reserve, Mr. Speaker.
03:15The gentleman from Massachusetts reserves his time.
03:18Distinguished gentleman from Virginia is recognized.
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