House Oversight Committee Votes To Subpoena Pam Bondi Over Missing Epstein Files | EUROtoday

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 data associated to intercourse predator Jeffrey Epstein.

The committee voted 24-19 on the decision by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), with 5 Republicans and all Democrats in help.

Mace instructed HuffPost the subpoena would require Bondi to take a seat 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 stated. “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 got here as a shock Wednesday and as soon as once more thrust the House Oversight Committee to the forefront of the congressional response to the Trump administration’s persevering with refusal to launch the Epstein information. The committee first voted in July to subpoena the Justice Department for the information, and it obtained hundreds of paperwork in response. In November, Congress handed a legislation requiring all the information to be made public in a searchable database.

The Justice Department had uploaded tens of millions of paperwork by the tip of January, however nonetheless, hundreds of information are lacking ― together with FBI varieties detailing an unsubstantiated accusation towards President Donald Trump.

Shortly earlier than the vote, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) made a half-hearted effort to influence his colleagues to oppose Mace’s movement for a subpoena.

“Remember, the attorney general has offered to come in and give briefings,” Comer stated.

Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) provided a fast clarification: “There’s no commitment for her to come in, as far as I understand.”

A deposition is extra critical than a briefing and carries the danger of repercussions for untruthful statements.

The different Republicans to vote for the subpoena have been Reps. Lauren Boebert (Colo.), Tim Burchett (Tenn.), Michael Cloud (Texas) and Scott Perry (Pa.).

During a listening to with the House Judiciary Committee final month, Bondi principally insulted lawmakers as an alternative of answering their questions. She claimed Trump is the best president in American historical past, partly as a result of the Dow Jones Industrial Average inventory index had surpassed 50,000 factors.

Mace stated Bondi should comport herself in a different way throughout her deposition.

“I don’t expect to be talking about the stock market, so she better not bring those notes when she comes to the Oversight Committee,” Mace stated.