Where 36 At-Risk U.S. House Incumbents Stand on Epstein Files Transparency as Election Day Nears
This table shows the stands of 36 politically at-risk U.S. House members on the question of whether to enact the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Because they represent the nation’s most contested congressional districts, their record on Jeffrey Epstein could determine their fate on Nov. 3, 2026. Most other House members seeking re-election are rated likely to prevail. Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., pictured here, co-sponsored the transparency act with Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.
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| To Discharge Epstein Bill from Committee | To Pass Epstein Files Transparency Act | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Ciscomani | R-6 | AZ | NO | YES |
| Kevin Kiley | I-3 | CA | NO | YES |
| Adam Gray | D-13 | CA | YES | YES |
| David Valadao | R-22 | CA | NO | YES |
| Derek Tran | D-45 | CA | YES | YES |
| Gabe Evans | R-8 | CO | NO | YES |
| Darren Soto | D-9 | FL | YES | YES |
| Kathy Castor | D-14 | FL | YES | YES |
| Jared Moskowitz | D-23 | FL | YES | YES |
| Marianette Miller-Meeks | R-13 | IA | NO | YES |
| Zach Nunn | R-3 | IA | NO | YES |
| Bill Huizenga | R-4 | MI | NO | YES |
| Tom Barrett | R-7 | MI | NO | YES |
| Kristen McDonald Rivet | D-8 | MI | YES | YES |
| Don Davis | D-14 | NC | YES | YES |
| Chuck Edwards | R-11 | NC | NO | YES |
| Tom Kean Jr. | R-7 | NJ | NO | YES |
| Nelli Pou | D-9 | NJ | YES | YES |
| Gabe Vasquez | D-2 | NM | YES | YES |
| Susie Lee | D-3 | NV | YES | YES |
| Thomas Suozzi | D-4 | NY | YES | YES |
| Laura Gillen | D-5 | NY | YES | YES |
| Mike Lawler | R-17 | NY | NO | YES |
| Josh Riley | D-19 | NY | YES | YES |
| Greg Landsman | D-1 | OH | YES | YES |
| Marcy Kaptur | D-9 | OH | YES | YES |
| Brian Fitzpatrick | R-1 | PA | NO | YES |
| Ryan Mackenzie | R-7 | PA | NO | YES |
| Rob Bresnahan | R-8 | PA | NO | YES |
| Scott Perry | R-10 | PA | NO | YES |
| Henry Cuellar | D-28 | TX | YES | YES |
| Vicente Gonzalez | D-34 | TX | YES | YES |
| Rob Wittman | R-1 | VA | NO | YES |
| Jen Kiggans | R-2 | VA | NO | YES |
| Marie Perez | D-3 | WA | YES | YES |
| Derrick Van Orden | R-3 | WI | NO | YES |
Issue 1
To Discharge Transparency Bill from Committee
On Nov. 12, 2025, sponsors of the Epstein Files Transparency Act (HR 4405) reached the threshold of 218 signatures they needed to discharge their bill from the Judiciary Committee to the House floor for an up or down vote. The House passed the bill six days later.
After the bill was introduced on July 15, 2025, by Reps. Ro Khanna D-Calif., and Thomas Massie R-Ky., it was shelved by the committee chairman, Rep Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
All 214 House Democrats and four Republicans signed the discharge petition. The decisive 218th signature was provided by newly elected Rep. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., after Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., had delayed her swearing-in by seven weeks. The four GOP members joining Democrats in signing the petition were Massie and Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Nancy Mace of South Carolina.
A yes signature was to discharge the bill from the Judiciary Committee.
Issue 2
To Pass Epstein Files Transparency Act
Voting 427 for and one against, the House on Nov. 18, 2025, passed a bill (HR 4405) that would require the Trump administration to publicly release within 30 days the 300-plus gigabytes of law-enforcement files stored at the Department of Justice on sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his global criminal ring. The paper and electronic trove is comprised of millions of pages of emails and other correspondence; travel data including passenger logs of flights on his private jets; transcripts of FBI interviews of victims; contact books identifying traffickers; photos and videos of sexual acts; court documents; and Treasury Department and IRS records showing how Epstein financed his global operations.
For almost four months, nearly all Republicans went along with the GOP leadership’s tactic of shelving the bill in the Judiciary Committee. But after all Democrats and four GOP lawmakers used a discharge petition to force a House vote on the measure, Republicans switched positions en masse and voted to pass the bill. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., cast the only vote against the bill.
The Senate passed the bill on a non-record vote on Nov. 19, 2025, and President Trump signed it into law the same day.
Law enforcement agencies assembled the files over decades of investigations that resulted in Epstein’s plea deal in 2008 on state charges of soliciting prostitution from a 14-year-old girl and his federal indictment in 2019 on charges of trafficking underage girls. He died Aug. 10, 2019, in a New York City jail while awaiting trial.
In floor debate on the bill, Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., said: “This forced vote means the House will no longer acquiesce in this astonishing real-time coverup of a multibillion-dollar global sex trafficking and child-rape ring that has ravaged the lives of more than a thousand girls and young women.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said: “Democrats are using the Epstein tragedy…as a political weapon to try to distract from their failures as a party and to try their best to try to tie President Trump somehow into this wretched scandal. The president had nothing to do with it. He has been very clear. He has nothing to hide. That is why he endorsed the vote today.”
A yes vote was to send the bill to the Senate.