Though lawmakers hoped the issue would die down over their August recess, it was revived this week when a key House committee released a note and sexually suggestive drawing addressed to Mr. Epstein that contained what appeared to be Mr. Trump’s signature.

Mr. Schumer proposed his Epstein measure as an amendment to an annual defense policy bill and then, using a maneuver available to him as the minority leader, teed up a procedural vote.

“If Republicans vote no, you’ll be saying to the American people that they should not see the Epstein files,” Mr. Schumer said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. “I ask my Republican colleagues: After all those years you spent calling for accountability, for transparency, for getting to the bottom of these awful crimes, why won’t you vote yes?”

Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and the majority leader, told reporters that Mr. Schumer’s measure was a “stunt” and promised to dispense with it. The Senate voted 51 to 49 to table it.

Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said she opposed Mr. Schumer’s measure because a similar amendment had been adopted on a spending bill that would fund the Justice Department. That bill has not yet been passed by the Senate, but Ms. Collins said it was a more appropriate vehicle for a measure on the Epstein files.

“It does not belong on the Department of Defense policy bill,” she said.

Mr. Schumer was not the first Democrat to try to force the Epstein issue through the Senate. But other efforts, including two from Senator Ruben Gallego of Arizona and one from Jeff Merkley of Oregon, used different procedures that allowed them to be defeated without Republicans recording votes.

Mr. Schumer’s proposal was similar to a bipartisan resolution introduced in the House by Representatives Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Ro Khanna of California. The pair appear within weeks of being able to force a vote on their measure on the House floor, a move that would require the signatures of 218 House members on what is known as a discharge petition.

Their effort got a boost on Wednesday night, when Representative James Walkinshaw, Democrat of Virginia, was sworn in after winning a special election. Mr. Walkinshaw has vowed to sign the petition, which would bring the number of signatories to 217.

>>1434615
schumer promised to legalized cannabis in 2018 grifted over it for 6 years without ever bring it to a vote or any cannabis bills like safe act.
He's lost all legitimacy and frankly any bill schumer brings up and anyone who supports him are brain-dead imbeciles who love being lied to

>>1434664
Ok but he was still right to try to sneak releasing the list into the defense bill.

>>1434615
She’s 20 not child age!

>>1434664
this is the best shills can do here?
point and laugh

>>1434615
>Democrat President
>Democrat Senate
>Democrat House
>doesnt release files
Theater. Its theater.

>>1434828
Hey which side has a president currently in the white house and the files, and tried to deny they fucking exist?

>>1434829
>Democrats run government for four years
I sleep
>Republicans take over government
THE FILES RELEASE THE FILES

>>1434830
how many times have you posted this talking point, shill? do you know how trial works? both questions are rhetorical, mind you

Gurdian
Of
Pedophiles

>>1434831
You have no argument because there is no argument to be made. Its political theatrics.

>>1434831
They're just trying to shut down discourse by reducing things down to one sentence they can easily explain away.
They do it with every argument.

>>1434835
>argument is so shit it can be shutdown by a single sentence
Skill issue.

>>1434830
>>1434834
Which party ran a campaign on releasing the files again?

>>1434842
I refer you to my prior post >>1434828

esl shill does not know how trials work. or more accurately, he is willfully ignorant of such proceedings

>>1434846
So it was the democrats who ran with a campaign talking point about releasing the files??

>>1434872
Do you dent that they could have released them at any time?

>>1434848
>literal non-American thinks Epstein had a trial

>>1434874
changing topics so quickly, esl shill? score one me

>>1434874
https://files.catbox.moe/4rabsb.png
debunked

>>1434874
>>1434900
For those who won't click on the pic, the majority of the documents were sealed under court order throughout Biden's presidency and the SCOTUS extended the appeal deadline twice until after the election. Biden could NOT have released them and the poster saying he could is BTFO.

>>1434911
>the poster saying he could is BTFO.
He was already BTFO by the fact that senate republicans blocked the vote to release the files.

>>1434911
>>1434922
Grand Jury documents are still under court ordered seal. Cope harder. The docs dems want released today are the same docs they could have released four years ago when they had total power.

This is theater.

>>1434939
Source?

>>1434941
his ass

bump ;)

Why would Republicans block this when Q said Trump is stopping child trafficking? Was I played like a cheap guitar?

>>1434817
Buying a 20 y/o drinks to get her drunk so you can fuck her is still wrong.

>>1436604
You already know why.