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Mike Johnson, the top official of the House of Representatives, declared on Wednesday that a bill mandating the release of official documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be presented to the full chamber for a vote next week.

“We are going to schedule that vote for complete consideration next week, right when we reconvene,” Johnson addressed journalists, while the House gathered to discuss legislation to reopen the US administration.

The Republican leader, who is against the proposal, revealed the plan just hours following oath-taking Arizona congressional member Adelita Grijalva, who assumed office seven weeks post winning a late September by-election to take over from her late father, long-serving congressman Raúl Grijalva, who passed away in the third month.

The new representative's induction enabled the process for the decision to release the Epstein files|Epstein documents|Jeffrey Epstein records, as she became the 218th signature on a congressional measure that mandates a House floor vote on a proposal demanding the justice department to release the documents. In her floor remarks on midweek, the new representative said:

Justice cannot wait another day. Forward.

According to the procedures governing discharge petitions, Johnson would not have been obliged to schedule a ballot until the beginning of December, so his statement that the decision would take place next week is ahead of schedule.

Even if the bill clears the House of Representatives, it still needs to get through the Senate|upper chamber|US Senate and be signed by the president. Senate leaders have given no sign they will consider it for a ballot, and Donald Trump has decried the proposal as a “false narrative”.

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