The House Oversight Committee is preparing to subpoena the Justice Department—and some of the most powerful names in American politics—for all files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
In a move that signals a major escalation, the committee will issue subpoenas to Bill and Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and six former U.S. Attorneys General: Merrick Garland, Eric Holder, William Barr, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions, and Alberto Gonzales.
A committee spokesperson confirmed the subpoenas will be issued by Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., following a key vote by the Federal Law Enforcement Subcommittee.
The decision came after two separate motions passed during a tense subcommittee hearing. Rep. Summer Lee, D-Pa., introduced a motion to subpoena the DOJ for Epstein-related records. It passed with an 8–2 vote.
Republicans joined Democrats to make it happen.
Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., added an amendment requiring the redaction of victims’ names and any personal identifying information. Those files will not be made public—but they will be turned over to the committee.
“This is not about politics,” said Mace. “This is about getting to the truth.”
The committee also approved a motion from Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa., to subpoena key political figures connected to the Epstein investigation or to Ghislaine Maxwell, his convicted co-conspirator.
Perry named them one by one: “Former President Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director James Comey, and former Attorneys General Merrick Garland, Eric Holder, William Barr, Loretta Lynch, Jeff Sessions, and Alberto Gonzales.”
The move comes just one day after a different subcommittee voted to subpoena Ghislaine Maxwell herself. That subpoena has already been issued by Chairman Comer.
Not everyone agreed. Only two members—Subcommittee, Chairman Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), voted against the motion.
Biggs tried to shift focus by introducing an amendment to include “all communications between President Biden or the Biden officials and the prosecuting agency related to the Epstein prosecutors.” That amendment passed as well.
The Oversight Committee is now going after answers from some of the most powerful legal and political figures of the last 20 years.
This comes just hours after the Wall Street Journal revealed that President Donald Trump has known for months his name appears in the Epstein files.
