US representative Scott Perry (R., Pa.) Voted for a democratic request to call the Department of Justice for files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the day after Billboard calls him to “release all Epstein files”, he went in his district.
Perry, who represents the County of York, was one of the three Republicans from the House supervision subcommittee managed by the GOP for federal law enforcement agencies To support the movement Introduced by rep. Summer Lee (D., Pa.). The middle passed 8-2.
Members of the Republican Committee, including Perry, He also voted for adding additional calls, Including former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Voting of the subcommittee came the day after the speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) Announced that the representatives will be sent home early for the summer, To avoid a full house, vote to spend Epstein files.
The controversy about Epstein, a well -known sex offender who died in federal detention in 2019, still divides Republicans in Washington and tests support for President Donald Trump, whose name appears in the files, According to The Wall Street Journal reports. Although he is Trump’s longtime ally, Perry has repeatedly called for files.
At the beginning of this month he wrote a letter to the US prosecutor general Pam Bondi, Calling her to conduct an investigation into the proceedings by the Federal Government in the case and to issue sealed records of the Great Jury from the case against Epstein in Florida in 2006. This week, Perry also Perry he demanded protective care For Epstein Associate and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, before her testimony before the Chamber Supervision Committee in August.
“I never hesitated in this position,” said Perry for Inquirer. “I do exactly what I think is right, as I always did.”
Democrats They recently took the Epstein problempushing to Files to spend and aiming at Republicans Legislators with attack ads. Billboard in Harrisburg, which calls for files next to the photos of Perry and Trump in black, white and red Paid by progressive non -progressive non -vivinate.
Perry represents one of the four republican districts in Pennsylvania, whose Democrats are in the middle of the period in 2026. Last year he won re -election a little more than a percentage point.
Other billboards, heading representatives of Virginia Foxx (R., NC), Derrick Van Orden (R., Wis.), Nancy Mace (R., SC) and Johnson, also went in relevant family states.
And even after the voting of the subcommittee, the Indivisible leaders say that Perry did not do enough to press the files.
“He did nothing to demand a stay at home in a session for a full vote on the first floor, instead miserably following the leader of Mike Johnson to close Congress to continue the hiding of the president,” said Dani Negrete, national political director of Indivisible, in a statement for Inquirer. “It will pass for weeks because of this participation before we see something as a result of voting one committee.”
But Perry said that the recent interest in the Democrats with the files of Epstein is “All Theater”.
“They had many opportunities to take care of children who were kidnapped and used,” he said, arguing that Democrats should also examine former president Joe Biden.
“In fact, I did more than all democrats because of this,” he said. “None of those people who pay for billboards and says that these things depend on these children or this problem.”
Perry also said that “there are justified arguments” so that the Republicans do not vote for democrat resolutions to issue files, saying that some attempts to force the release of files do not take sufficient steps to protect the anonymity of victims.
“I would like to make sure that those who are innocent are alleged innocent until they are proven, and those who are potentially a victim are revised,” said Perry.
