{"id":15812,"date":"2025-11-18T23:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-house-votes-to-release-epstein-files-kicks-bill-to-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T23:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T23:20:35","slug":"live-updates-house-votes-to-release-epstein-files-kicks-bill-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/live-updates-house-votes-to-release-epstein-files-kicks-bill-to-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Live updates: House votes to release Epstein files, kicks bill to Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to advance legislation forcing the release of information related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Trump, in a reversal, backed the effort over the weekend.  Eyes on Capitol Hill are now turned to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5609237-live-updates-trump-saudi-arabia-mbs-house-epstein-vote\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to advance legislation forcing the release of information related to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after Trump, in a reversal, backed the effort over the weekend. Eyes on Capitol Hill are now turned to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812","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=15812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}