Thomas Massie

There are things that the White House doesn’t want out there that my legislation would cause to be released.

There are things that the White House doesn’t want out there that my legislation would cause to be released.

somebody needs to show us what's new in those documents.

People want these files released. I mean, look, it’s not the biggest issue in the country. It’s taxes, jobs, the economy, those are always the big issues. But you really can’t solve any of that if this place is corrupt.

There’s a major pressure campaign from the White House right now, and also from the speaker, but I think there are enough Republicans who are listening to their constituents and care about these victims that we’ll get the 218 signatures we…

Speaker Johnson just scheduled this meaningless vote to provide political cover for those members who don’t support our bipartisan legislation to force the release of the Epstein files.

He can’t say that he’s protecting the victims, and I’m not.

This is going to hurt Republicans in the midterms. The voters will be apathetic if we don’t hold the rich and powerful accountable.

I think the pressure will build over August recess. I don’t think it will dissipate like the speaker hopes that it will.

That would be up to the president. But if she has information that could help us, then I think she should testify. Let’s get that out there. And whatever they need to do to compel that testimony, as long as it’s truthful, I would be in…

The American people deserve this, regardless of what the political ramifications are for the speaker.

Politics is the art of the doable.

Ro and I carefully crafted this legislation so that the victims’ names will be redacted and that no child pornography will be released.

Well, I think we should get a lot more than just the book. Let’s get the financial records of the estate, follow the money, as they say up here.

People will become apathetic again. They’ll say, we elected President Trump. We gave him a majority in the House and the Senate, and they couldn’t even release evidence of an underage sex trafficking ring. They couldn’t even bring…

I think it will embolden Republicans who are right now, quietly, agreeing with me.

Why are you running cover for an underage sex trafficking ring and pretending this is a partisan issue? MAGA voted for this.

I have the people on my side.

They’re wasting millions of dollars against me, and they’re going to lose the majority because of that.

This is the ultimate decision the speaker needs to make. And it's irrespective of what the president wants.

When the speaker stands in the way of justice and transparency, this is how we get justice.

You don’t lose your base over one single thing, but (Trump’s) eroding his base. More importantly, if we don’t take the right side of this issue, it’s going to cost us votes in the midterms.

There are a lot of people here in the swamp who think that, ‘Oh, well if we spend five weeks on vacation, the pressure for this will dissipate,’

It will follow each individual Republican through the midterms. It will follow people into their primaries.

I think this is the referendum on [Johnson's] leadership.