This article, authored byAnthony Iafrateis republished under the Creative Commons “CC BY-NC-ND” license with permission fromThe Daily Caller News Foundation.

Five Republicans joined Democrats Wednesday to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify before Congress about her Department of Justice’s (DOJ’s) heavily scrutinized rollout of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to call in Bondi to appear in front of Congress to discuss the DOJ’s release of the files, the manner of which has garnered significant criticism from across the political spectrum.

Republican South Carolina Rep. Nancy Mace — a leadingproponentfor greater transparency regarding Epstein’s child sex trafficking empire — brought the motion. Four of her GOP colleagues joined her in voting for it: Republican Reps. LaurenBoebertof Colorado, TimBurchettof Tennessee, Michael Cloud of Texas and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania.

Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer joined most of the panel’s Republican majority in voting against the motion.

The DOJ did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

“AG Bondi claims the DOJ has released all of the Epstein files. The record is clear: they have not,” Mace wrote in a Wednesday afternoon Xpostannouncing her move to subpoena Bondi.

The Republican lawmaker, who isrunningfor South Carolina Governor, went on to call Epstein’s case “one of the greatest cover-ups in American history.” She pointed to missing videos and audio as well as outstanding documents numbering in the millions.

“We want to know why the DOJ is more focused on shielding the powerful than delivering justice. The American people deserve answers, victims deserve justice. HOLD. THE. LINE,” Mace added in her post.

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