House lawmakers push Senate to pass Epstein bill unchanged, warn of ‘calculation’

House lawmakers preparing to vote Tuesday on a bill that would require the Justice Department to disclose all of its records relating to Jeffrey Epstein are pressuring the Senate to pass the measure without any amendments.

The bill will be introduced in the House Tuesday afternoon through a mechanism called a discharge petition led by Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky. A discharge petition allows a bill to gain a House-wide vote against the wishes of the leadership, provided the petition gains support from most lawmakers in the chamber. In this case, last week’s petition gained support from most lawmakers in the chamber, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga.

“This has never been political. This is not about questions about Trump or Biden. This is about doing the right thing for survivors. We’re going to have a vote today. I expect an overwhelming vote in the House of Representatives. And I don’t want the D.C. swamp to play any games,” Khanna said Tuesday at a news conference alongside Massie, Greene and some of Epstein’s survivors.

“They need to pass this in the Senate, and they shouldn’t amend it. President Trump said he would sign the Epstein Transparency Act. It’s going to get overwhelming support in the House. It should go straight to the Senate, and it should be signed. No amendments, no more loopholes. Justice is long overdue,” he added.

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Rep. Ro Khanna, Democrat of California, speaks with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Massie reiterated Khanna’s statements.

“Like Ro said, don’t screw things up in the Senate. Don’t be too cute,” Massie warned in the Upper House. “We’re all paying attention. If you want to add additional protections for these survivors, go ahead. But if you do anything that prevents disclosure, you are not for the people and you are not part of this effort. Don’t screw this up in the Senate.”

Republican lawmakers who spoke to Fox News Digital Monday evening said they would vote for the bill and were optimistic their colleagues would as well — although many of them said they were still concerned about the way it was written.

This comes after House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., who was against the bill but pushed parallel transparency efforts in Epstein’s case, said he hoped it would undergo significant changes when it reaches the Senate to give more protection to innocent people whose names may appear in records against their will.

“These women fought the most horrific fight that no woman should ever have to fight, and they did it by coming together and never giving up,” Greene said Tuesday. “And that’s what we did by fighting so hard against the most powerful people in the world, even the president of the United States, to make this vote happen today.”

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein’s years of abuse of underage girls. (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

“I was called a traitor by a man I fought for for five, no, actually, six years. And I gave him my loyalty for free. I won my first election without his support, defeating eight men in a primary, and I never owed him anything. But I fought for him, for his policies and for America First,” Greene said, days after President Donald Trump withdrew his support for the Georgia Republican. “And he called me a traitor for standing with these women and refusing to remove my name from the release request.”

“Let me tell you what a traitor is,” Greene added. “A traitor is an American who serves foreign countries and himself. A patriot is an American who serves the United States of America and Americans, like the women who stand behind me.”

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“And today you’re probably going to see a unanimous vote in the House to release the Epstein files. But the fight, the real fight will be after that. Although I want to see every name released so that these women don’t have to live in fear and intimidation, which I’ve had a little taste of in the last few days. Just a little taste,” she added. “They’ve been going through this for years, but the real test will be whether the Justice Department will make the records public, or will this all stay tied to the investigations?”

Khanna also called Tuesday “the first day of real reckoning for the Epstein class.”

“We are here to stand with forgotten and abandoned Americans against an Epstein class who had no respect for rules or laws,” Khanna continued. “Thanks to the survivors who spoke out, thanks to their courage, the truth will finally come out. And when it is revealed, this country will truly have a moral reckoning.”

Sky Roberts, left, brother of Virginia Giuffre, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein, and his wife, Amanda Roberts, hold up a photo of Giuffre as they speak during a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

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“How did we allow this to happen? There shouldn’t be buildings named after people from that Epstein class. There shouldn’t be scholarships named after them. They shouldn’t have the benefits of being affiliated with corporations or universities, writing op-eds, or being honored. And many survivors will tell you that some of these people are still celebrated in our society. It’s disgusting. There needs to be accountability,” he also said.

Elizabeth Elkind of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.