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| Future they are building for the next generation of Miami-Dade County residents. | ||
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Thank you, and I yield back. | |
| Joel and Yills. | ||
| Pursuant to clause 12A of Rule 1, the chair declares the House in recess until noon today. | ||
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The House is now in recess. | |
| Members will return later today to debate policing and criminal justice reform in Washington, D.C. | ||
| They will also consider legislation related to Homeland Security, as well as a bill aiming to repeal a provision that would allow senators to sue the government over past searches of their phone records without their knowledge. | ||
| When members return, be sure to follow our live coverage here on C-SPAN. | ||
| Welcome to today's Washington Journal. | ||
| Let's take a look at the front page of the Washington Post on this topic. | ||
| It says Congress is poised Tuesday to send a bill to President Donald Trump to force the Justice Department to release files related to deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, overcoming a months-long impasse in the House and quickly dispatching with the issue in the Senate. | ||
| Hours after the bill passed the House, 427 to 1, the Senate agreed to deem the legislation passed as soon as it arrives from the House. | ||
| Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer offered a motion that received unanimous consent and will require no further action by the chamber. | ||
| Well, here is Senator Chuck Schumer on the House floor, sorry, on the Senate floor, asking for that. | ||
| The American people have waited long enough. | ||
| Jeffrey Epstein's victims have waited long enough. | ||
| Let the truth come out. | ||
| Let transparency reign. | ||
| And I urge my Republican colleagues, let the Senate act today. | ||
| And so, I ask unanimous consent that when the Senate receives H.R. 4405, the Epstein Files Transparency Act from the House, the Senate proceed to its immediate consideration. | ||
| The bill be considered, read three times, and passed with no intervening action or debate, and the motion to reconsider be considered, made, and laid upon the table. | ||
| Is there an objection? | ||
| Not objection, so ordered. | ||
| Without objection, so ordered. | ||
| The Senate has now passed the Epstein bill as soon as it comes over from the House. | ||
| I yield the floor. | ||
| And here's what President Trump posted on True Social yesterday evening. | ||
| He says, I don't care when the Senate passes the House bill, whether tonight or at some other time in the near future. | ||
| I just don't want Republicans to take their eyes off all the victories that we've had. | ||
| He continues and ends this way. | ||
| It says, having created the hottest country anywhere in the world and even delivering a huge defeat to the Democrats on the shutdown, Make America Great Again. | ||
| Well, the one no vote in the House was, as we mentioned, Clay Higgins of Louisiana. | ||
| This is Politico. | ||
| He explains: 216 Republicans voted in favor of the legislation on Tuesday, two days after President Donald Trump urged his party to support it on True Social. | ||
| It says the lone no vote in the near-unanimous House legislation said that he opposed it on privacy grounds. | ||
| Quote, this is what he wrote on X: it abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. | ||
| As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people, witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. | ||
| If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files released to a rabid media will absolutely result in innocent people getting hurt. | ||
| Well, let's hear from one of those survivors. | ||
| This is Jenna Lisa Jones. | ||
| This is before the House vote, and she has a message to the president. | ||
| The world should see the files to know who Jeffrey Epstein was and how the system catered to him and failed us. | ||
| Emotionally, this process has been distressing. | ||
| First, the administration said it would release everything and applauded President Trump for that. | ||
| Then it fought to release nothing. | ||
| Now that that checks and balances of our democracy have worked and the bill is getting passed to release the files, we are hearing the administration say they intend to investigate various Democrats who were friends with Epstein. | ||
| I beg you, President Trump, please stop making this political. | ||
| It is not about you, President Trump. | ||
| You are our president. |