The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pamela Bondi in a push for more information on the Justice Department’s controversial handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
The panel agreed, 24-19, to a motion by Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., that would direct the committee to subpoena Bondi to come before the committee to answer lawmakers’ questions regarding the Justice Department’s compliance with a law Congress passed last year that ordered the release of records related to the late financier.
Prior to the vote, Chairman James R. Comer, R-Ky., attempted to sap the motion’s momentum by announcing he had just spoken to Bondi’s chief of staff, who agreed to allow committee members to come to DOJ to be briefed by Bondi on the department’s release of files.
