Indian origin Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Attorney General Pam Bondi engaged in a pointed exchange on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein during a hearing, highlighting anger on both sides over how Congress and the administration were handling the Epstein scandal.
Jayapal began by praising the "incredible courage" of Epstein survivors who were in the room. She said the Epstein Files Transparency Act required the DOJ to redact the information of survivors, but said the DOJ showed a pattern of redacting the names of "powerful predators".
