{"id":21686,"date":"2026-04-21T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/this-is-how-democrats-say-oversight-republicans-are-trying-to-quash-the-epstein-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T20:20:41","slug":"this-is-how-democrats-say-oversight-republicans-are-trying-to-quash-the-epstein-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/this-is-how-democrats-say-oversight-republicans-are-trying-to-quash-the-epstein-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"This is how Democrats say Oversight Republicans are trying to quash the Epstein investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The committee chair has started hosting frequent &ldquo;roundtables,&rdquo; where his members can&rsquo;t force subpoena votes&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2026\/04\/21\/congress-epstein-oversight-subpoenas-00882501\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The committee chair has started hosting frequent &ldquo;roundtables,&rdquo; where his members can&rsquo;t force subpoena votes&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21686","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\/21686","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=21686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}