House Subcommittee Passes Rep. Summer Lee’s Motion to Subpoena Epstein Files
Epstein Files Now Required to be Released
WASHINGTON, D.C. – JULY 23, 2025 — Today, the House Oversight Subcommittee on Federal Law Enforcement passed Congresswoman Summer L. Lee’s (PA-12)’s motion to subpoena the Department of Justice for the full, unredacted release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. The files must be released to the House Oversight Subcommittee by the Department of Justice. The motion passed with bipartisan support on a vote of 8-2.
“Today we are one step closer to justice for victims of Jeffery Epstein’s crimes and those of his accomplices,” said Rep. Lee. “We cannot claim to be protecting children while allowing powerful people connected to Epstein to hide in the shadows. They are not above the law. That’s why I introduced this motion—and I’m proud that today, the subcommittee passed it. The American people deserve transparency, accountability, and the full truth—no matter how uncomfortable or politically inconvenient it may be.”
Congresswoman Lee, the Ranking Member of the subcommittee, introduced the motion during a hearing on the Trump Administration’s immigration policies that have endangered the health and safety of children across the country. During the hearing, Rep. Lee highlighted the dangerous contradiction in Republicans’ claims to care about child trafficking while continuing to shield records related to one of the most infamous child sex traffickers in U.S. history.
Congresswoman Summer Lee serves on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and the Committee on Education and the Workforce. Since taking office in January 2023, she has delivered historic levels of federal investment totaling over $2.4 Billion brought back to Western PA, including over $580 million for infrastructure, over $110 million for affordable transit, over $500 million to keep clean energy manufacturing at home in Pennsylvania, and over $55 million on clean energy efforts in and around schools to help keep our kids and communities safe. These investments will help improve Western Pennsylvania’s infrastructure and transit, ensure cleaner air and drinking water, lower housing costs, fund research institutions, fuel clean manufacturing, fund STEM innovation and entrepreneurship, boost workforce development, and create thousands of good paying union jobs. Lee and her team have also delivered casework and constituent services to over 3,000 constituents with issues ranging from helping our seniors and disabled community access Medicare and social security to helping folks secure housing and helping families with immigration support and passports.