{"id":12837,"date":"2025-09-02T18:04:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rules-chair-republicans-wont-turn-off-massies-epstein-discharge-effort-in-committee\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T18:04:32","slug":"rules-chair-republicans-wont-turn-off-massies-epstein-discharge-effort-in-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rules-chair-republicans-wont-turn-off-massies-epstein-discharge-effort-in-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Chair: Republicans won\u2019t turn off Massie\u2019s Epstein discharge effort in committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx says Republicans will not seek to turn off Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s discharge petition effort in her panel.<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina Republican said \u201cNo,\u201d when asked in a brief interview Tuesday if Republicans would try such an effort via the Rules Committee.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders have been trying to avoid such a move for now. Massie plans to unveil his discharge petition today to force a vote on his bipartisan bill to compel the Justice Department to release its entire Epstein-related file.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he planned to meet with a group of Epstein victims later Tuesday on Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would not put much stock into what Thomas Massie says,\u201d the speaker said of the Kentucky Republican. \u201cThe House Republicans have been very consistent about maximum disclosure and maximum transparency with the Epstein file, but we had to do the way that would protect the innocent victims of these horrific crimes.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx says Republicans will not seek to turn off Rep. Thomas Massie\u2019s discharge petition effort in her panel. The North Carolina Republican said \u201cNo,\u201d when asked in a brief interview Tuesday if Republicans would try such an effort via the Rules Committee. GOP leaders have been trying to avoid such a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}