Johnson says House will vote next week on whether to release Epstein files

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CNN Politics

Updated Nov 12, 2025, 6:57 PM ET
PUBLISHED Nov 12, 2025, 6:56 PM ET


Speaker Mike Johnson announced to reporters on Wednesday that he will put a bill compelling the Department of Justice to release all of its Jeffrey Epstein case files on the House floor next week – earlier than expected.

“We’re going to put that on the floor for a full vote when we get back next week,” Johnson said.

“In the meantime I’ll remind everybody the [House] Oversight Committee has been working around the clock” on its own investigation, the speaker said.

Johnson is required to put the bill from Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna and GOP Rep. Thomas Massie on the floor soon, now that their discharge petition has reached 218 signatures.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/politics/epstein-files-house-vote

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RELEASED FILES REFERENCE SO FAR HERE -
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220799449

( ificandream)

[BOSSHOG]

1. "when we get back next week"

and after I get my orders from Stephen Miller on what I’m to do and say. I do a very good job at being a spineless lying weasel with no integrity.

[Javaman]

13. "Yeah we'll take the vote on the 12th of never" nt

[lastlib]

17. Hey that's insulting and demeaning to the entire Mustelidae family!

Weasels are noble beasts compared to the spineless Little Mikey! He is more like a jellyfish--spineless, gutless, heartless, brainless, floats with the currents, and feeds from the bottom.

[BOSSHOG]

19. I defer to your editing

Well done

[Lifeafter70]

2. Time to contact our reps

Let them know we expect them to vote yes on releasing the epstein files.

[BlueKota]

11. Contacting mine won't do any good.

She's got her head so far up tsf's ass, she will never get it unstuck.

[Lifeafter70]

14. Yeah too many of them have that affliction

She will have to go on record as protecting a pedophile.

[riversedge]

23. Mine either but I wrote on my calendar to call his office tomorrow.

[Pisces]

3. Gives them time to threaten the GOP reps that are signed up to vote

[Jarqui]

6. Yep .. and suddenly, it won't pass ...nt

[moniss]

4. I'll be surprised if he doesn't include

screwed up language/conditions that make it like a "poison pill" sort of thing in an effort to get enough votes to shoot it down.

[karynnj]

22. I think it was written by Khanna and Massie

It should easily pass, though it may be a damned if you do, damned if you don't vote for Republicans. It will be interesting to see if Trump can influence most of them.

In some ways, taking the vote is the important thing - especially as it will be tough to override Trump's veto.

However, the effort is likely why the Democrats put out 3 emails. The Republican response to dump 10s of thousands will likely backfire. (Oddly the Republicans forget that in a gesture to transparency, Clinton asked the State Department to process for redactions and put all her emails online. This was done in monthly tranches and led to the email story resurfacing every month. This is one dump, but I would bet we will see a long series of Epstein articles. )

[moniss]

25. Good points and also I would

say that we don't know how much info that was told to the FBI/Florida investigators didn't make it "into the files" for various reasons. Sometimes things aren't deemed relevant or credible and are not included or followed up on. Sometimes it can be deliberate omission for crooked reasons. That's one reason why the stories from the survivors are so important because they may have bits of info that are actually important and give more info but were not in the FBI/Florida files.

I also believe, given reporting about Epstein and Mossad and other foreign intelligence, that there is a CIA file on Epstein that may have much more of the story than is in the FBI/Florida files but we will likely never see that. Having said that I would also say that other countries intelligence agencies likely have files on Epstein given his activities internationally and those files may have info that CIA/FBI/Florida files do not have. Again we probably won't ever see those files either.

Seeing those additional files could really get deeply into the various international players and the money aspects. I wouldn't be surprised if the US Treasury Department has a file that goes beyond what has been released so far about bank alerts for transactions. There is so much blatant money laundering that goes on today and the tie in to Crumb the 1st and the Russian mob by way of all of the the 1000's of LLC's and high level prices/lending/sales on real estate is very strong.

[C_U_L8R]

5. Sounds like the fix is in.

Hope they prove that wrong.

[Javaman]

7. And if this doesn't pass...

I can guarantee you the repukes are dead men walking

The nation overwhelmingly wants these released and if they are not, I think that nation, collectively, will have a shit hemorrhage

[Escape]

8. So....it looks like their plan will be..

....that they can't release the Epstein Files until the Republican Oversight Committee has concluded their investigation. (2028?)

[gab13by13]

9. Looks like a snake in the wood pile.

Mikie Sherrill will still be seated, right?

If Johnson can stall until Christmas Mikie will be gone.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. "Mikie Sherrill will still be seated, right?"

Sherill was elected governor of NJ.

And if you are talking about Adelita Grijalva ((D-AZ), she was sworn in this afternoon! He can't stall too long per the Rules for discharge.

[lastlib]

18. She's still a member of the House, isn't she?

She and Spanberger haven't resigned yet, to my knowledge, so they can still vote.

[karynnj]

21. Spanberger was already out of the House.

Sherrill will be sworn in in January, but I don't know when she intends to resign. I think when she resigns might affect when the special election will be set.

[BumRushDaShow]

24. Spanberger didn't run for reelection to the House in 2024

and one of the Vindman twins (Eugene) actually won her seat last year!

Sherrill only announced Wed. that she had planned to submit her resignation "next week", although apparently when/how that happens is up in there air (including the NJ legislature currently in the process of changing their cumbersome special election process to speed it up) - https://newjerseyglobe.com/congress/gov-elect-sherrill-plans-to-submit-letter-of-resignation-from-house-next-week/

Just like Elise Stefanik who plans to run for governor in NY next year, the party leadership on both sides, are juggling how to handle the Congressional voting ability for "early" departing members given how close the split is in the House.

[lastlib]

30. Ah, you'e right, my bad.

Thanks for the correction!

[BlueKota]

10. Enough time to make some creative changes to the originals,

I suppose.

[Deuxcents]

12. Enough time to twist some arms

[choie]

16. There's GOT to be a hitch

Last edited Thu Nov 13, 2025, 07:05 AM - Edit history (1)

No way is this going to be a clean vote. If it ever happens.

[underpants]

27. The only hitch is how much they can redact. It'll pass in the House.

“I’m certain the House vote will succeed,” Massie said in an interview. “Some Republican members who are not signers of the petition have told me they will vote for the measure when the vote is called. I suspect there will be many more.”
He added, “I even wonder if Speaker Johnson might advise politically vulnerable members to vote for it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/house-epstein-files-vote-00647392

[hay rick]

20. Translation: the fix is in.

[underpants]

26. It'll pass. They expect 40-50 Republicans to vote Yes

Then it’s up to the Senate Republicans to carry Trump’s water OR for him to veto it himself which will not be a good look at all.

“I’m certain the House vote will succeed,” Massie said in an interview. “Some Republican members who are not signers of the petition have told me they will vote for the measure when the vote is called. I suspect there will be many more.”
He added, “I even wonder if Speaker Johnson might advise politically vulnerable members to vote for it.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/12/house-epstein-files-vote-00647392

[hay rick]

32. Yes.

The fix will be in what is actually released. My only hope is that the releases from Epstein's estate will force them to deliver all of the goods.

[The Wizard]

28. Mike Small Johnson

speaks with forked tongue. Getting the truth from the Speaker is like nailing water to the wall.

[Lovie777]

29. Still got to bribe those house politicians...............

and if passed, round up of the GQP senators plus Fetterman from the WH as well.

[BumRushDaShow]

31. "round up of the GQP senators plus Fetterman from the WH as well."

Fetterman wants the files released - ‘Everything Should Come Out’: John Fetterman Declares Trump-Epstein Bombshell ‘Troubling’

(he seems to have a narrow set of topics that he has bucked the party on but for the most part, has voted for everything else on the Democratic agenda)

[republianmushroom]

33. Need to do some arm bending or braking over the weekend.