This just in: the House of Representatives has officially passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which will force the DOJ to release all the documents they have related to Jeffrey Epstein. The final vote was nearly unanimous — 427-1. Take a look: Despite President Trump’s call earlier this week for the GOP to pass the bill, the only person who voted against it was Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana. Rep. Higgins explained why he voted ‘no’ on the bill in a statement on X. Basically, he claims the bill would not go far enough to protect the privacy of the victims. Read here: In case that print is too small to read, here’s the full text of Rep. Higgin’s post: I have been a principled “NO” on this bill from the beginning. What was wrong with the bill three months ago is still wrong today. It abandons 250 years of criminal justice procedure in America. As written, this bill reveals and injures thousands of innocent people – witnesses, people who provided alibis, family members, etc. If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt. Not by my vote. The Oversight Committee is conducting a thorough investigation that has already released well over 60,000 pages of documents from the Epstein case. That effort will continue in a manner that provides all due protections for innocent Americans. If the Senate amends the bill to properly address privacy of victims and other Americans, who are named but not criminally implicated, then I will vote for that bill when it comes back to the House. The House may have passed the bill, but the battle is not over, yet. Now, the act heads to the Senate, where it might be amended. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is calling for the Senate to amend the bill to redact information that might expose victims. But, Senate Majority Leader John Thune is pushing back on that. Politico reported: Speaker Mike Johnson called on the Senate to add more privacy protections for victims and whistleblowers, a concern Higgins cited in explaining his vote against the bill. But that would require the bill to come back to the House for final approval, and Thune said that further changes are unlikely. There is a broad desire in the GOP to pass the bill and move on to other legislative business. If passed by the Senate, President Trump has promised to sign the bill into law. Per ABC News: Pressed if he will sign the bill should it reach his desk, Trump on Monday said he would. “I’m all for it,” Trump said. The measure — called “The Epstein Files Transparency Act” — would compel Attorney General Pam Bondi to make available all “unclassified records, documents, communications and investigative materials” in the Department of Justice’s possession related to Epstein. The legislation seeks federal records on Epstein and his convicted accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as other individuals, including government officials, named or referenced in connection with Epstein’s “criminal activities, civil settlements, immunity, plea agreements or investigatory proceedings.” Victims’ names and other identifying information would be excluded from disclosure, as would any items that may depict or contain child sex abuse material, according to the text of the proposed bill. Let’s get this thing passed — unredacted! Full transparency! Then, hopefully, we can finally move on to the prosecutions stage of this whole thing… Your thoughts?