- More than 100 House members had signed Rep. Thomas Massie's new discharge petition as of September 4 — up sharply from the roughly three dozen signatures on file just days earlier, though the effort remains well short of the 218 needed to force a vote.
- The follow-up bill, the Epstein Files Transparency Act II, would let survivors, state attorneys general and members of Congress sue the Justice Department over withheld or redacted Epstein records, building on the original law Congress passed 427-1 last November.
- Massie says he now needs just two more Republicans, since Rep. Nancy Mace has already signed alongside him. The outgoing Kentucky congressman, who lost his primary in what trackers called the priciest House race in U.S. history, says he's willing to wait for a lame-duck session if leadership stalls past November.
