{"id":12866,"date":"2025-09-03T06:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rules-chair-republicans-wont-turn-off-massies-epstein-discharge-effort-in-committee-2\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:20:54","slug":"rules-chair-republicans-wont-turn-off-massies-epstein-discharge-effort-in-committee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/rules-chair-republicans-wont-turn-off-massies-epstein-discharge-effort-in-committee-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Rules Chair: Republicans won\u2019t turn off Massie\u2019s Epstein discharge effort in committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx says Republicans will not seek to turn off Rep. Thomas Massie&rsquo;s discharge petition effort in her panel. The North Carolina Republican said &ldquo;No,&rdquo; when asked in a brief interview Tuesday if Republicans would try such an effort via the Rules Committee&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/09\/02\/congress\/jeffrey-epstein-files-thomas-massie-virginia-foxx-house-rules-committee-00540014\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Rules Chair Virginia Foxx says Republicans will not seek to turn off Rep. Thomas Massie&rsquo;s discharge petition effort in her panel. The North Carolina Republican said &ldquo;No,&rdquo; when asked in a brief interview Tuesday if Republicans would try such an effort via the Rules Committee&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866","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=12866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}