U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi attends a House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department to testify, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., U.S., Feb. 11, 2026.
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The House Oversight Committee on Wednesday voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for a deposition on the Department of Justice’s handling of its investigation of Jeffrey Epstein, and its compliance with a law requiring all documents related to the notorious sex offender to be made public.
The 24-19 vote by the committee came after growing criticism of the DOJ for failing to release all of the Epstein files, and reports that it has removed from public view tens of thousands of documents that previously were made public.
The motion to subpoena Bondi was introduced by Rep. Nancy Mace, a South Carolina Republican, who blasted the DOJ earlier Wednesday over its suppression of many Epstein files.
“AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not,” Mace said in a post on X.
“The Epstein case is one of the greatest cover-ups in American history,” Mace wrote.
Mace also posted a YouTube video showing her entering the motion at the Oversight Committee.
In addition to Mace, four other Republicans joined most of the panel’s Democrats in voting to subpoena Bondi, who is a Republican: Lauren Boebert of Colorado; Pennsylvania’s Scott Perry; Tim Burchett of Tennessee; and Michael Cloud of Texas.
CNBC has requested comment from the DOJ.
The DOJ, under the Epstein Transparency Act passed nearly unanimously by Congress last year, was required to publicly release all of its files on Epstein and his convicted accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell.
After making more than 3 million documents public in late January, the DOJ said it would not release the rest of the Epstein files, which total more than 2.5 million documents.
Since then, media outlets have reported that the DOJ removed from public view.
Some of the files withheld had included memos and notes about FBI interviews, including those of a woman who has alleged that President Donald Trump sexually abused her when she was a minor.
Trump has never been charged with wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and has said he was unaware of his former friend’s criminal conduct.
CBS News reported on Tuesday that “as of late February, the Justice Department has taken down more than 47,000 files comprising about 65,500 pages.”
