00:00colleagues coordination with Epstein. Another email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein
00:05to an event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win
00:12a majority. So Hakeem Jeffries campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what we found
00:20in the last document batch. The files underscore why former President Trump must appear for his
00:25deposition. We've subpoenaed him. To date, the Democrats have done nothing to help us secure
00:31his appearance. I support full transparency. The Oversight Committee will continue to work
00:36to get the truth to the American people and to get justice for the victims. That's our goal
00:42of this investigation. With that, I yield back. The gentleman yields back. Yeah, Mr. Speaker,
00:47we reserve. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized.
00:55Colleagues coordination with Epstein. Another email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an
01:01event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to to build to win a
01:09majority. So Hakeem Jeffries campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what we found
01:16in the last document batch. The files underscore why former President Trump must appear for his
01:21deposition. We've subpoenaed him. To date, the Democrats have done nothing to help us
01:26secure his appearance. I support full transparency. The Oversight Committee will continue to work
01:32to get the truth to the American people and to get justice for the victims. That's our goal
01:38of this investigation. With that, I yield back. The gentleman yields back. Yeah, Mr. Speaker,
01:43we reserve. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized.
01:46One thing. It is real. Which brings me to last week. Think about what the Democrats did last week.
01:56The Democrats released an email that the Oversight Committee had obtained from the estate. An email
02:03from Mr. Epstein to Ms. Maxwell. When the Democrats released it, they redacted the victim's name.
02:09Something we all support. Something everyone supports. Except, except in this case,
02:16no court had ordered that name redacted. No agency had redacted it. And the estate didn't
02:21redact it. And the victim had already went public. So why black out her name? Why black out her name?
02:29Because she had said in her book and had testified under oath that she never saw any wrongdoing by
02:36President Trump. So think about what they did. In an email between two criminals,
02:42Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell, in an email between two criminals, they hide the name of an individual
02:49who had went public and had exonerated the president. And we know why. To distort and twist
02:56the message because they thought it might harm the president. Their position, their position,
03:03cover up the names of people who are already public, but don't worry about other innocent people
03:08who the court said should remain private. Again, I think the American people see through it.
03:15They see through what the Democrats are doing. The American people know what this is.
03:20They know Democrats have nothing else to run on because of the success of this administration.
03:26So I say let's vote yes on this resolution. And then let's get focused on making sure we're doing
03:31what the American families elected us to do. With that, I reserve.
03:36The gentleman from Maryland is recognized.
03:39Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as I may consume.
03:42The gentleman is recognized.
03:43Today, four months and three days after Mr. Kahn and Mr. Massey introduced their discharge petition,
03:50perhaps the most famous discharge petition in American history,
03:53The People's House unites across party lines to draw a moral line. We draw a line against the rape
04:02and sexual violation of children. We draw a line against the global criminal trafficking of girls
04:09and young women to service the pleasure of rich and powerful men who believe they are beyond all law
04:16and all morality. We draw a line to put the voices of the victims and the survivors first.
04:24We ask the Senate to join us without changes rather than obstruct this bill with dilatory amendments,
04:32legislative graffiti and self-dealing million dollar jackpot provisions for lucky senators just passed the bill.
04:39We're finally voting today because a bipartisan discharge petition led by representatives Massey and Kahn and signed by 218 of us
04:49overthrew the determined obstruction of the Speaker.
04:54This forced vote means the House will no longer acquiesce in this astonishing real-time cover-up
05:03of a multi-billion dollar global sex trafficking and child rape ring that has ravaged the lives of more
05:12than a thousand girls and young women. We are here today because these victims, these survivors,
05:18these citizens, these inspiring women who have come to Washington are demanding nothing less than justice
05:26and the complete truth about who is responsible for their vicious abuse, including those responsible
05:33for enabling it, ignoring it, bankrolling it, and covering it up. We join them today in rejecting any more
05:42dangerous lies about the crimes they suffered. No, child sex abuse is not a hoax. It's a crime.
05:51Human trafficking is not a hoax. It's a crime. These crimes are a curse on children and young people
05:59across America, in universities and elementary schools, in churches and mosques and synagogues,
06:06in Boy Scout troops and college sports teams and summer camps, anywhere the powerful and the rich
06:13believe they've got the opportunity and the impunity to exploit the young, the poor,
06:20the powerless and the vulnerable. We must face the truth and find the co-conspirators still at
06:27large in one of America's most extensive and sophisticated sex trafficking and child abuse
06:33rings in history. Release of the file will expose the role of everybody who facilitated and covered up
06:40these crimes, like JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and Bank of New York Mellon,
06:47which executed billions of dollars in transactions related to these offenses, as well as any bank
06:53executives who participated in the sexual abuse of girls and young women. We must expose everyone
06:59who covered up these crimes, like Alex Acosta, the former U.S. attorney in Miami, Donald Trump's
07:06labor secretary, who gave Jeffrey Epstein an unbelievable sweetheart plea deal, immunized unnamed
07:13conspirators and killed an investigation into Epstein's financial crimes that could have brought
07:19down the entire criminal network. And with that, I'm going to yield. I'll reserve the balance of my
07:28time. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from Ohio is recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I yield
07:32four minutes to the distinguished chair of the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Comer, and the gentleman from
07:36Kentucky. The gentleman from Kentucky is recognized. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. As chairman of the House
07:41Oversight Committee, I've always believed that sunshine is the best disinfectant. For years,
07:47the American people have demanded transparency about Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's horrific
07:52crimes and about the federal government's failure to protect the victims. The House Oversight Committee
07:59is conducting a thorough review of the federal government's investigation into Epstein. Our work
08:04goes far beyond the legislation before us today. We are committed to accountability, transparency,
08:10and justice for the American people and for the survivors of these appalling crimes.
08:16To date, the Oversight Committee has released more than 65,000 pages of documents, issued 13
08:23subpoenas, and conducted interviews with two key witnesses, both of whom were Republicans.
08:29The Trump administration has provided us with Department of Justice materials and access
08:33to suspicious activity reports. Unfortunately, throughout this investigation, Democrats have chosen to
08:39manufacture yet another anti-Trump hoax instead of pursuing justice. They have mischaracterized witness
08:48testimony and selectively released documents complete with targeted redactions in an effort to smear
08:55President Trump. For example, former U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr, who oversaw the 2019 Epstein
09:03investigation, stated clearly under oath that the prosecution team found no evidence that President
09:11Trump committed wrongdoing. Despite this simple and straightforward fact, ranking member Robert Garcia,
09:21moments after that deposition, tiptoed out and publicly claimed that, quote, Barr could not clear Trump of wrongdoing.
09:31That was a lie, and we have the transcript to prove it. I invite the media to read the transcript.
09:39When the Oversight Committee interviewed former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Alex Acosta,
09:45Democrats whipped themselves into a frenzy trying to manufacture a gotcha moment, but they failed.
09:52Mr. Acosta dismantled the Democrats' narrative. His testimony confirmed there was no contact between President Trump
09:59and Mr. Acosta, and no connection between President Trump and the Epstein case. Next, Democrats resorted to
10:07selective leaks and doctored documents to mislead the American people. Oversight Committee Republicans have
10:12posted 65,000 pages of documents we have received to date. Democrats, by contrast, have released fewer than one dozen.
10:21In their latest selective leak, Democrats released just three, three of the 23,000 pages of documents from the Epstein estate.
10:31And they made redactions to two of those emails that changed both the context and the meaning of the three pages they released.
10:40When CNN, CNN, CNN called them out for their deceptive redactions, representatives Stansberry and Crockett tried to blame Republicans for their own edits,
10:53for the Democrat Oversight Committee edits. After Democrats released only three emails, Republicans released over 23,000 pages.
11:02And what did Democrats say in response when we released every single document that we got?
11:09They claimed full transparency was meant to, quote, disorient or distract from their manufactured narrative.
11:17These are the same Democrats who chant, release the files every day until the files contradict the story they want to tell.
11:26That is the definition of hypocrisy. In contrast, full transparency exposed how Epstein appears to be
11:35TDS patient zero. The emails reveal a journalist coached Epstein to blackmail then-presidential candidate Donald Trump.
11:45The files also show that a House Democrat colluded with Epstein during the 2019 oversight hearing to discredit
11:57witness with a vendetta against President Trump. And unsurprisingly, Democrats have been silent about
12:03their colleagues' coordination with Epstein. Another email shows Democrat fundraisers invited Epstein to an
12:09event or to meet privately with Hakeem Jeffries as part of their 2013 effort to win a majority.
12:17So Hakeem Jeffries' campaign solicited money from Jeffrey Epstein. That's what we found in the last document
12:25batch. The files underscore why former President Trump must appear for his deposition. We've subpoenaed him.
12:31To date, the Democrats have done nothing to help us secure his appearance. I support full transparency.
12:38The Oversight Committee will continue to work to get the truth to the American people and to get
12:43justice for the victims. That's our goal of this investigation. With that, I yield back.
12:50Yeah, Mr. Speaker, we reserve. The gentleman reserves. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized.
12:54Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I should just point out that we've heard now from the two distinguished
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