House committee subpoenas AG Pam Bondi on Epstein files

Sarah D. Wire

The U.S. House Oversight Committee voted March 4 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the Department of Justice's handling of its release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Some members of Congress have expressed frustration and outrage that the Department only released a little more 3 million pages of the 6 million it possesses related to investigations of the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender who died by suicide while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Congress voted in December to force the Department to release all of the Epstein files with limited redactions to protect victims and their identities.

The Oversight Committee is conducting its own probe of the Epstein investigations. The 24 to19 vote to summon Bondi was led by South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace, who is a Republican. Four other Republicans joined with Democrats on the committee.