Your Reps' Stands on Releasing
The Government's Epstein Files
With the Jeffrey Epstein global sex-trafficking ring now regularly in the headlines after decades of operating in the shadows, members of Congress are being required to take stands on the question of whether the government’s massive collection of law-enforcement files on the serial child rapist and his collaborators should be publicly revealed.
This website reports every federal lawmaker’s votes on the issue of secrecy vs. disclosure. It covers 13 votes held in the full House and Senate and in House committees and subcommittees in 2025-2026 as well as House members’ stands on a discharge petition to send a transparency bill to a vote on the House floor. We also cover Senate votes in 2017 on confirming a cabinet secretary with links to Epstein. The coverage will be updated through Election Day 2026 and beyond.
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Trump’s Campaign Boast Put Epstein Files on U.S. Political Agenda
By Richard G. Thomas, Editor | US Congress VoteFacts.com
Jeffrey Epstein began his serial predations against young women and girls as early as the 1990s. But officeholders in Washington paid almost no official attention to the convicted child rapist and his global sex-trafficking ring until Donald Trump, in his 2024 presidential campaign, embraced the secretive and mysterious “Epstein files” as a topic he would like to discuss.
In a political blunder that still dogs him, Trump said in response to a Fox News question in July 2024 that if he were returned to the White House, he would reveal the contents of what was thought to be a black book naming Epstein’s clients. His campaign then tweeted on X: “President Trump says he will DECLASSIFY the 9/11 Files, JFK Files, and Epstein Files.”
Soon after Trump’s inauguration in January 2025, his top law-enforcement officials put an official stamp on the campaign boast that he would unleash a trove of files supposedly concealing the identities of rich and powerful elites who were Epstein’s accomplices in widespread pedophilia.