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The House has passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, known as HR 4405, with a 127-1 vote, with five not voting at all.

It was taken up under suspension of the rules, which means it needed a

two-thirds majority and still passed easily. Every Democrat and all but one Republican voted yes.

The lone no vote was Representative Clay Higgins, a Republican from Louisiana, who says he's

worried about privacy for victims and

people mentioned who aren't charged with crimes. What the bill does is passed by the House is this.

It orders the Department of Justice to release all files, all records, all communications,

and investigative materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and

associated investigations. The Department of Justice has a short deadline, 30 days in some reports,

15 and others depending on version, and the final text and how that will be controlled to make the material

public once it becomes law it also allows redactions to protect the identity of victims and

minors avoid harming ongoing investigations as well and explicitly says the Department of Justice cannot withhold or redact information

just because it's politically embarrassing, reputationally damaging, or politically sensitive,

quote unquote.

So the question now is, what is next?

Well, the bill now goes to the Senate.

The majority leader there, John Thune, has said he expects a Senate to consider it fairly quickly

and possibly as soon as later today or tomorrow.

But it still needs 60 votes there, and let's be honest,

where they Senate divide the way it is, where you couldn't even get

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