The bill passed the committee with the support of every Democrat and only one Republican, its sponsor, who modified it to shield President Trump from a divestment requirement.
When a pair of Democrats sought to win quick approval of a bipartisan package of policing legislation, a third rose to object, saying the party must take every opportunity to challenge President Trump.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first Republican in Congress to use the term to describe the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza. But others in the MAGA movement have expressed growing concern about Israel.
The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee also pressed the Justice Department for a promise that Ms. Maxwell will not be pardoned for her cooperation in matters related to the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Senator Richard Durbin wrote that there were “serious concerns that Ms. Maxwell may provide false information or selectively withhold information, in return for a pardon or sentence commutation.”
“I don’t know why it should be politically painful to be transparent,” Representative Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, said on Sunday, referring to comments by Speaker Mike Johnson.
The Republican speaker truncated the legislative schedule for the week ahead of a summer recess, moving to deny Democrats the chance to force votes on whether to release the Epstein material.
The Republican speaker of the House had said last week that the government should release “everything” in the Jeffrey Epstein files, in a rare break with the president that turned out to be short-lived.
The Kentucky Republican, a frequent critic of President Trump, teamed with a Democrat in a maneuver that could force G.O.P. leaders to hold a vote on the matter within weeks.
“I don’t accept it, and I don’t think anyone else should accept it,” Marjorie Taylor Greene said of the decision not to release more information about Jeffrey Epstein.
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