Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) praised the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein in a press conference Tuesday, holding it up as a more effective way to probe matters surrounding the convicted sex offender than a discharge petition effort to circumvent leadership and force a vote to release the “Epstein Files.”

In a break from his daily messaging on the government shutdown, Johnson argued the “bipartisan” House Oversight investigation is getting more information than would be gained even if the discharge petition was successful.

“The bipartisan House Oversight Committee is already accomplishing what the discharge petition, that gambit, sought, and much more,” Johnson said.

The Oversight panel last week

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